Gypsy Quotes

“So long for us to evolve. So long to walk out of Africa and around the globe. So long to build a human world. So quick to ruin it.”
― Carter Scholz, Gypsy

“...transcendence, if it meant anything at all, was the accommodation to limits: a finding of freedom within them, not a breaking of them.”
― Carter Scholz, Gypsy

“She walked the short distance to the ship's console and sat. It would have been grandiose to call it a bridge. It was a small desk bolted to the floor. It held a couple of monitors, a keyboard, some pads. It was like the light and sound booth of a community theater.”
― Carter Scholz, Gypsy

“And then he was just weary. His job was done. Existence seemed a pointless series of problems. What was identity? Better never to have been. He shut his eyes.”
― Carter Scholz, Gypsy

“Zia didn't trust materials. Or rather, he trusted them to fail. Superconductors, carbon composite, silicon, the human body. Problem was, you never knew just how or when...”
― Carter Scholz, Gypsy

“You're joking.
No, it's true. There are billions of internal surfaces in that piece.
It's like a piece of sky.
Yes, it is.”
― Carter Scholz, Gypsy

“Where are they going?
Alpha Centauri.
That's impossible.
Very likely. But that's where they're going.
Why?
It's less impossible than here.”
― Carter Scholz, Gypsy