Supernova Era Quotes

“Each star was like a distant eye blinking at the human world from the depths of the universe.”
― Liu Cixin, Supernova Era

“All you need to understand right now is this: the world isn't what it used to be”
― Cixin Liu, Supernova Era

“I really can’t keep it up anymore,” Huahua said.
“No one’s doing any better,” Specs said lightly.
“It’s not the same. This is impossible!”
“Think of yourself as a computer. You’re just cold hardware, and reality is just data. Accept your input and perform your calculations. That’s how you keep it up.”
― Liu Cixin, Supernova Era

“Civilization progresses not due to humans’ hard work, but because of their laziness.”
― Liu Cixin, Supernova Era

“Remember, son, no matter how ordinary the job, you’ll do well if you put your heart into it.”
― Liu Cixin, Supernova Era

“History is for the politician what oil paints are to a painter. There is no good or evil, all that matters is how you control it. There is no bad history, only bad politicians.”
― Liu Cixin, Supernova Era

“where Queen Elizabeth I,”
― Liu Cixin, The Supernova Era

“The other day I went to Xiong’an New Area in Baoding and visited a brand new city under construction where the supermarkets have no attendants, the hotels are unstaffed, and the vast majority of the cars on the streets are driverless. AI has replaced humanity. China used to have no sense of the future.”
― Liu Cixin, Supernova Era

“Everyone above the age of thirteen would die, and Earth would become a children’s world.”
― Liu Cixin, Supernova Era

“One can’t step twice in the same river” is nothing more than the babbling of an ancient Greek, for the river of time is the river of life, and this river flows endlessly at the same unchanging speed, an eternal flow of life and history and time.”
― Liu Cixin, Supernova Era