Jasper Fforde Quotes

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.

As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can’t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it’s there.

It's like time travel only, you know, slower.

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient.

You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it's impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel.

Apparently, some physicists argue that time is curved. I suppose this means that the past is in some way still present.

If you're going to write time travel stories, you have to sort of figure out how does time travel work in this particular universe that I'm dealing with.

I've actually never played a time traveler, for all the time travelling movies I've done.

I am a Leaper: a person who - thanks to some mathematical errors tied to the cosmic interactions of Earth and Sun and bad math on the part of some old timers long ago - is lost in time, born on a day that simply doesn't exist three out of four years.

Thinking about time travel may seem like something humans have been doing since the first caveman dropped the first rock on his foot. But, even to begin to imagine the possibility of time travel, your mind must be able to wrap itself around the notion of a past and a future.

I like the sci-fi channel. Just science in general. I came across a segment on time travel and how time travel is possible. We create a spaceship that's moving at almost the speed of light, we go in that spaceship in outer space, and we fly around for a year, when we get back to Earth, Earth would've aged 10 years.

Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

What time is it? It is by every star a different time, and each most falsely true.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what?