Quotes by Dexter Palmer, Version Control

“But who, in these modern times, slept well?”

“But the arrogance of old age can cloak itself in the authority of past accomplishments, which can serve to confirm the belief that ones arrogance is justly held. It can shield a man from the realiz...”

“I cant comprehend why any black man with even a lick of sense would have the slightest bit of interest in time travel. Going backward in time? A black man? You have got to be out of your mind.”

“Laterhow much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick youPhilip stood in the kitchen doorway.”

“What we are proposing,' Alicia said, 'is that the laws of physics are such that causality violation is subject to a form of version control, one that prevents a forking of history. That instead of ...”

“If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was false, the best thing he could say is that it was interesting.”

“He pulled out his wallet and extracted a twenty-dollar bill, fastidiously folding it in half so that the crease cut across the face of Theodore Roosevelt, with its shining spectacles and its Chesir...”

“She hadn't gone back in time. The idea was ”

“The device,' Philip said. 'What are you going to do with it?''I know how this sounds. But you'll have to trust us. We'll take possession of it. We're going to dismantle it; when we do so, the wormh...”

“But the hair on her arms did not stand on end; she did not experience any strange instances of dj vu; she did not see the ghosts of future selves shimmering before her, shouting stock picks back th...”

“You could consider the idea of the multiverse, and think of it as something like a treethat is, the universe we live in is one of an uncountable number of branches of possible universes, created by...”

“But we think that if a human were to violate conventional causality''By time traveli”

“She closed her eyes, and as had been her habit over these past couple of days, she began to imagine possible past histories and what she might have done to change them into the new one in which she...”

“Isn’t that the fantasy? If I go back in time, knowing what people back then didn’t know, then I can change history! But history made you what you are. And it’s bigger than any one man.”

“And all of these involved remembering that someone existed whom you hadn’t thought of in a while, an ability that had atrophied in the minds of people who could not remember a time without social n...”

“I can’t comprehend why any black man with even a lick of sense would have the slightest bit of interest in time travel. Going backward in time? A black man? You have got to be out of your mind.”

“Later—how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you—Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.”

“If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was “false,” the best thing he could say is that it was “interesting.”

“She hadn't gone back in time. The idea was”

“But we think that if a human were to violate conventional causality—''By time traveli”