Ted Chiang Exhalation Quotes

#1. The recipe for success ... customers will get what they want, when they want it ... you will see more revenue, greater brand loyalty, real relationships, and a competitive edge.

Martin Zwilling

#2. It's a measure of how far I've come that I didn't bother to say, "This is impossible."
I'd gotten the hang of it now.
-Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (comics adaptation by Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry)

Mike Carey

#3. May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.

Agatha Christie

#5. I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last.

Elvis Presley

#6. The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did ... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.

Ted Chiang

#7. Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back. If you do, you're not really living at all . . . just kind of going through the motions with no meaning.

Bethany Hamilton

#8. God will endure for as long as the reasons that brought him into being;
And so will those who deny him.

Michel Onfray

#9. Die Luft der Freiheit weht (The wind of freedom stirs). Since 1906, that obscure German phrase has encircled the Stanford Tree in the school emblem.

Greg Steinmetz

#10. I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life

Helene Cixous

#11. Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

Jasper Fforde

#12. The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

Shirley Jones

#13. Our power of thin-slicing and snap judgment are extraordinary.but even the giant computer in our unconscious need a moment to do its work.

Malcolm Gladwell

#14. What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

Jonathan Lethem

#15. The past always fails those who grasp at it.

Patrick Ness

#16. She said further that this Geneva blood drinker was tragically in love with Lestat.

Anne Rice