Instantiation Quotes

“I mean, there’s got to be an art to expounding the virtues of logical positivism while garrotting Nazis with piano wire, and it looks as if Jarrod started missing their special flair.”
― Greg Egan, Instantiation

“-“I’ve never believed in wormholes,” Fatima confessed. “Take two in relative motion and you’ve got a time machine. And I definitely don’t believe in time machines.”

-“Maybe you can believe in just one wormhole at a time,” Gabrielle replied, deadpan.”
― Greg Egan, Instantiation

“the formal structural descriptions full of cis-1,3-dimethyl-this and 2,5-di-tert-butyl-that”
― Greg Egan, Instantiation

“But what if a large part of your business consists of selling things that put people out of work. Including many of the people who actually pay for the things you’re trying to sell.”
― Greg Egan, Instantiation

“You needed someone to vent to, and I had enough distance from it that it didn’t weigh me down. I could commiserate and walk away.”
― Greg Egan, Instantiation

“Please don't tell me it was a double bluff ... Of all the even-numbered bluffs, the less-famous 'zero bluff' cancels itself out just as thoroughly, while attracting even less attention.”
― Greg Egan, Instantiation