Liking What You See Quotes

“Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say!”
― Ted Chiang, Liking What You See: A Documentary

“I say that physical beauty is something that we no longer need. Calli doesn't mean that you'll never see anyone as beautiful. When you see a smile that's genuine, you'll see beauty. When you see an act of courage or generosity, you'll see beauty. Most of all, when you look at someone you love, you'll see beauty. All calli does is keep you from being distracted by surfaces. True beauty is what you see with the eyes of love, and that's something that nothing can obscure.”
― Ted Chiang, Liking What You See: A Documentary

“Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our nature?”
― Ted Chiang, Liking What You See: A Documentary

“But I guess he has a point about how good-looking people are in commercials versus in real life. It's not that they look better than people in real life, but they look good in a different way.”
― Ted Chiang, Liking What You See: A Documentary

“Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don't matter.”
― Ted Chiang, Liking What You See: A Documentary

“Girls have always been told that their value is tied to their appearance; their accomplishments are always magnified if they're pretty and diminished if they're not. Even worse, some girls get the message that they can get through life relying on just their looks, and then they never develop their minds. I wanted to keep Tamera away from that sort of influence.

Being pretty is fundamentally a passive quality; even when you work at it, you're working at being passive. I wanted Tamera to value herself in terms of what she could do, both with her mind and with her body, not in terms of how decorative she was. I didn't want her to be passive, and I'm pleased to say that she hasn't turned out that way.”
― Ted Chiang, Liking What You See: A Documentary