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Top 120 Ted Chiang Quotes (2025 Update)
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Ted Chiang Quote: “Literacy encourages a culture to place more value on documentation and less on subjective experience.”

101. “Literacy encourages a culture to place more value on documentation and less on subjective experience.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “The past has left its traces on the world, and we only have to know how to read them.”

102. “The past has left its traces on the world, and we only have to know how to read them.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “Men are no different from your automata; slip a bloke a piece of paper with the proper figures on it, and he’ll do your bidding.”

103. “Men are no different from your automata; slip a bloke a piece of paper with the proper figures on it, and he’ll do your bidding.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “He tells people that they can no more expect justice in the afterlife than in the mortal plane, but he doesn’t do this to dissuade them from worshipping God; on the contrary, he encourages them to do so. What he insists on is that they not love God under a misapprehension, that if they wish to love God, they be prepared to do so no matter His intentions. God is not just, God is not kind, God is not merciful, and understanding that is essential to true devotion.”

104. “He tells people that they can no more expect justice in the afterlife than in the mortal plane, but he doesn’t do this to dissuade them from worshipping God; on the contrary, he encourages them to do so. What he insists on is that they not love God under a misapprehension, that if they wish to love God, they be prepared to do so no matter His intentions. God is not just, God is not kind, God is not merciful, and understanding that is essential to true devotion.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “You’ve got pharmaceutical-grade beauty, the cocaine of good looks.”

105. “You’ve got pharmaceutical-grade beauty, the cocaine of good looks.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “I’ve devoted my life to studying the wondrous mechanism that is the universe, and doing so has given me a sense of fulfillment. I’ve always assumed that this meant that I was acting in accordance with your will, Lord, and your reason for making me. But if it’s in fact true that you have no purpose in mind for me, then that sense of fulfillment has arisen solely from within myself. What that demonstrates to me is that we as humans are capable of creating meaning for our own lives.”

106. “I’ve devoted my life to studying the wondrous mechanism that is the universe, and doing so has given me a sense of fulfillment. I’ve always assumed that this meant that I was acting in accordance with your will, Lord, and your reason for making me. But if it’s in fact true that you have no purpose in mind for me, then that sense of fulfillment has arisen solely from within myself. What that demonstrates to me is that we as humans are capable of creating meaning for our own lives.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.”

107. “When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “Men as righteous as we could not be judged harshly.”

108. “Men as righteous as we could not be judged harshly.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “I will program my mind to forbid itself from moving beyond its own reprogramming range.”

109. “I will program my mind to forbid itself from moving beyond its own reprogramming range.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “But the only way to learn an unknown language is to interact with a native speaker, and by that I mean asking questions, holding a conversation, that sort of thing.”

110. “But the only way to learn an unknown language is to interact with a native speaker, and by that I mean asking questions, holding a conversation, that sort of thing.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “They’re blind to a simple truth: complex minds can’t develop on their own. If they could, feral children would be like any other. And minds don’t grow the way weeds do, flourishing under indifferent attention; otherwise all children in orphanages would thrive. For a mind to even approach its full potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.”

111. “They’re blind to a simple truth: complex minds can’t develop on their own. If they could, feral children would be like any other. And minds don’t grow the way weeds do, flourishing under indifferent attention; otherwise all children in orphanages would thrive. For a mind to even approach its full potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “Being pretty is fundamentally a passive quality; even when you work at it, you’re working at being passive.”

112. “Being pretty is fundamentally a passive quality; even when you work at it, you’re working at being passive.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “People are nice to me because of how I like, and part of me likes that, but part of me feels guilty because I haven’t done anything to deserve it.”

113. “People are nice to me because of how I like, and part of me likes that, but part of me feels guilty because I haven’t done anything to deserve it.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “I’m reminded of the Confucian concept of ren: inadequately conveyed by “benevolence,” that quality which is quintessentially human, which can only be cultivated through interaction with others, and which a solitary person cannot manifest.”

114. “I’m reminded of the Confucian concept of ren: inadequately conveyed by “benevolence,” that quality which is quintessentially human, which can only be cultivated through interaction with others, and which a solitary person cannot manifest.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “Because there are other people for whom being generous comes easily, without a struggle. And it’s easy for them because in the past they made a lot of little decisions to be generous. It was hard for me because I’ve made a lot of little decisions to be selfish in the past. So I’m the reason it’s hard for me to be generous.”

115. “Because there are other people for whom being generous comes easily, without a struggle. And it’s easy for them because in the past they made a lot of little decisions to be generous. It was hard for me because I’ve made a lot of little decisions to be selfish in the past. So I’m the reason it’s hard for me to be generous.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “What I’ll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won’t be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won’t be someone I could have created by myself.”

116. “What I’ll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won’t be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won’t be someone I could have created by myself.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.”

117. “The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “For me, thinking typically meant speaking in an internal voice; as we say in the trade, my thoughts were phonologically coded.”

118. “For me, thinking typically meant speaking in an internal voice; as we say in the trade, my thoughts were phonologically coded.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “I wish this didn’t affect me so deeply. Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can’t.”

119. “I wish this didn’t affect me so deeply. Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can’t.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “While each of us must find our own way forward through this forest of doubt, it is only with the support of others that we’ll be able to do so.”

120. “While each of us must find our own way forward through this forest of doubt, it is only with the support of others that we’ll be able to do so.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “If those scientists could come up with some way to turn off the jerk circuit in guys’ brains, I’d be all in favor of that.”

121. “If those scientists could come up with some way to turn off the jerk circuit in guys’ brains, I’d be all in favor of that.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? And that, you gave to agree, is a profound question.”

122. “Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? And that, you gave to agree, is a profound question.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can’t.”

123. “Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can’t.”

Ted Chiang Quote: “When Kokwa told the story, he didn’t merely use words; he used the sound of his voice, the movement of his hands, the light in his eyes. He told you the story with his whole body, and you understood it the same way. None of that was captured on paper; only the bare words could be written down. And reading just the words gave you only a hint of the experience of listening to Kokwa himself, as if one were licking the pot in which okra had been cooked instead of eating the okra itself.”

124. “When Kokwa told the story, he didn’t merely use words; he used the sound of his voice, the movement of his hands, the light in his eyes. He told you the story with his whole body, and you understood it the same way. None of that was captured on paper; only the bare words could be written down. And reading just the words gave you only a hint of the experience of listening to Kokwa himself, as if one were licking the pot in which okra had been cooked instead of eating the okra itself.”

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