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1. "A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business Schoolfound that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of annualincome. -- from "Eugene" ~ Greg Egan
2. "Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer' Earth, to steal their ‘precious' physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition'…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn't have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice." ~ Greg Egan
3. "Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders." ~ Greg Egan
4. "It all adds up to normality." ~ Greg Egan
5. "He blinked in the gloom. He was wearing heavy black trousers and a waistcoat over a stiff white shirt. His exoself, having chosen an obsession which would have been meaningless in a world of advanced computers, had dressed him for the part of a Victorian naturalist.The drawers, he knew, were full of beetles. Hundreds of thousands of beetles. He was free, now, to do nothing with his time but study them, sketch them, annotate them, classify them: specimen by specimen, species by species, decade after decade. The prospect was so blissful that he almost keeled over with joy." ~ Greg Egan
6. "Parantham finally realized that selecting a star on the map enabled a sub-menu with the unassuming option "Go to star". Choosing this did not change the map's viewpoint or magnification; rather, it caused the map to inquire politely, "Are you sure you wish to travel to this star?" ~ Greg Egan
7. "All we can ever know about are the portraits of each other inside our own skulls." ~ Greg Egan
8. "I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't." ~ Greg Egan
9. "Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times." ~ Greg Egan
10. "Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely." ~ Greg Egan
11. "Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software." ~ Greg Egan
12. "I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before." ~ Greg Egan
13. "I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants." ~ Greg Egan
14. "I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap." ~ Greg Egan
15. "Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club." ~ Greg Egan
16. "I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway." ~ Greg Egan
17. "I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published." ~ Greg Egan
18. "He'd never been lectured on Darwinism in any brothel back home, but then what could he expect in a country run by godless socialists?" ~ Greg Egan
19. "it was still the pre-eminent social networking site for the 0-3 age group" ~ Greg Egan
20. "How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?""That depends.""On what?""On how I want to feel." ~ Greg Egan
21. "I've been taking longer to write stories lately." ~ Greg Egan
22. "It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008." ~ Greg Egan

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