Quotes from 2025
The girl’s hands darted over the keyboards and the air was filled with the tones of that most ancient of Japanese instruments: the synthesizer.
— , Schismatrix Plus Love doesn’t have goals or benchmarks or blueprints, but it does have a purpose. The purpose is not to change the people we love, but to give them what they need to thrive. Love’s purpose is not to shape our beloved’s destiny, but to help them shape their own. It isn’t to show them the way, but to help them find a path for themselves, even if the path they take isn’t one we would choose ourselves, or even one we would choose for them.
— , The Gardener and the Carpenter Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.
— , The Left Hand of Darkness When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
— , The Left Hand of Darkness The problem with any really advanced intelligence, it seemed, was that just by existing it tended to erode the autonomy of all the selves around it.
— , Echo of Worlds