Siddharth

“When I was ten years old, all I gave my sweetheart was a pair of projections that turned the group of rotations in four dimensions into principal bundles over the three-sphere. Ancient constructions, though I did rediscover them for myself.’ ‘How were they received?’ ‘She liked them so much, she extended them to larger spaces and gave me back the result.”
― Greg Egan

“Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition.”
― Greg Egan, Permutation City

“As he walked past shops and teahouses he could still”
― Greg Egan, Zendegi

“It is in this gesture of "going beyond," to be something in oneself rather than the pawn of a consensus, the refusal to stay within a rigid circle that others have drawn around one-it is in this solitary act that one finds true creativity. All others things follow as a matter of course.”
― Alexander Grothendieck