Trevor Goodchild quotes from Æon Flux

Trevor Goodchild

The unobserved state is a fog of probability, a window of and for error. The watcher observes, the fog collapses, an event resolves – a theory becomes a fact. What is the truth? Tell me if you know [heh] and I will not believe you. Things are never as they seem. Clean gloves hide dirty hands and mine are dirtier than most. Without truth there can be no justice.

Trevor Goodchild

That which does not kill us, makes us stranger.

Trevor Goodchild

...Although I must admit, now that you're here the standard method of procreation does seem somewhat appealing.

Trevor Goodchild

They say cats always land on their feet but at this point there's really no floor.

Trevor Goodchild

Light in the absence of eyes illuminates nothing. Visible forms are not inherent in the world, but are granted by the act of seeing. Though the world and events do exist independent of mind, they obtain of no meaning in themselves- none that the mind is not guilty of imposing on them. I bid my people follow and, like all good equations, they follow. For full endowment of purpose, they do submit. In turn, they resign me to a role inhuman, impossible, and unaccountable. But I can no longer stand the sleepless nights. I think I am learning to love the Demiurge.

Trevor Goodchild

The height in tension in any game occurs when the rules allow for the influence of human judgement. The advantage in this instance is held by the player who drops the ball to allow the opponent a hollow victory. Half of eternity is still eternity. Infinity and Zero are different degrees of the same value. Pain isn't real beyond the individual who feels it, but the nail is real.

Trevor Goodchild

Natural evolution should amount to nothing by now but a vicious cycle of obsolescence. A world unaccountable to its own past and doomed to repeat it indefinitely, oblivious of any consequence.

Trevor Goodchild

You can't hide from it, Aeon! It's everywhere!

Trevor Goodchild

If but the cosmos could possibly have come about innocent of history, and not wholly ignorant of all its potential- unprejudiced, but aware- rather than that its only trial be performed at the mercy of all its error.

Trevor Goodchild

Oh, and after you're done? Go shoot yourself. That's right, kill the damned messenger.

Trevor Goodchild

Memories are precious. We are only what we remember of ourselves and what we have done. Without memories we are nothing.

Trevor Goodchild

We are not what we remember of ourselves. We can undo only what others have already forgotten. Learn from your mistakes, so that one day you can repeat them precisely.

Trevor Goodchild

[gasping] Ttttime...is...in... our minds...Æon...

Trevor Goodchild

Strength is not an absolute value. To be strong is to evolve. Mutability is strength. Evolution is a string of victories by the strong over the meek. The meek shall not inherit the Earth.

Trevor Goodchild

Go forth, and multiply. Procreation is the fundamental act of faith. We divide, even as we conquer. And is it losses on the field of battle? No! It is in the battle of love. So I turn my weapons to the task of evolution. Case in point: I transform two men's semen into armies of conception by exposing them to the same ray, Aldus B. Sadly, one dies. The other buries him with honor. The ray is imperfect; some will die. But the alternative is the death of the entire human race. We have already evolved so much that our actions would be incomprehensible to a human from a thousand years ago. It's the evolution revolution. Tomorrow we speed up the process. All sectors, all species. Only the strong shall evolve.