Terry Pratchett Quote
Ponder and his fellow students watched Hex carefully.'It can't just, you know, stop,' said Adrian 'Mad Drongo' Tumipseed.'The ants are just standing still,' said Ponder. He sighed. 'All right, put the wretched thing back.'Adrian carefully replaced the small fluffy teddy bear above Hex's keyboard. Things immediately began to whirr. The ants started to trot again. The mouse squeaked.They'd tried this three times.Ponder looked again at the single sentence Hex had written.+++ Mine! Waaaah +++'I don't actually think,' he said, gloomily, 'that I want to tell the Archchancellor that this machine stops working if we take its fluffy teddy bear away. I just don't think I want to live in that kind of world.''Er,' said Mad Drongo, 'you could always, you know, sort of say it needs to work with the FTB enabled...'You think that's better?' said Ponder, reluctantly. It wasn't as if it was even a very realistic interpretation of a bear.'You mean, better than fluffy teddy bear?'Ponder nodded. 'It's better,' he said.
Ponder and his fellow students watched Hex carefully.'It can't just, you know, stop,' said Adrian 'Mad Drongo' Tumipseed.'The ants are just standing still,' said Ponder. He sighed. 'All right, put the wretched thing back.'Adrian carefully replaced the small fluffy teddy bear above Hex's keyboard. Things immediately began to whirr. The ants started to trot again. The mouse squeaked.They'd tried this three times.Ponder looked again at the single sentence Hex had written.+++ Mine! Waaaah +++'I don't actually think,' he said, gloomily, 'that I want to tell the Archchancellor that this machine stops working if we take its fluffy teddy bear away. I just don't think I want to live in that kind of world.''Er,' said Mad Drongo, 'you could always, you know, sort of say it needs to work with the FTB enabled...'You think that's better?' said Ponder, reluctantly. It wasn't as if it was even a very realistic interpretation of a bear.'You mean, better than fluffy teddy bear?'Ponder nodded. 'It's better,' he said.
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About Terry Pratchett
Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001, he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010.
In December 2007 Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust (now Alzheimer's Research UK, ARUK), filmed three television programmes chronicling his experiences with the condition for the BBC, and became a patron of ARUK. Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, at the age of 66.