That was great, al’ that reading’ ye did!’ said Rob Anybody. ‘I didnae understand a single word o’ it!’ ‘Aye, it must be powerful language if you cannae make oout what the heel it’s goin’ on aboot!’ s...
That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be...
Swing, though, started in the wrong place. He didn't look around, and watch and learn, and then say, 'This is how people are, how do we deal with it?' No, he sat and thought: This is how the people ou...
Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Sometimes I get nice letters from people who know they're due to meet him (Death) soon, and hope I've got him right.Those are the kind of letters that cause me to stare at the wall for some time.
Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found reason not to be. He would step off a high building in the happy s...
She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.
Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what their wives say. And the listening is important, because at...
Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something . In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than...
Pollution removed his helmet and shook out his long white hair. He had taken over when Pestilence, muttering about penicillin, had retired in 1936.
Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?
People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
People build something that works. Then circumstances change, and they have to tinker with it to make it continue to work, and they are so busy tinkering that they cannot see that a much better idea w...
Our rulers rule by consent, which means that we like having them as rulers, if they do what we want them to do.
Old gods do new jobs.
OH. DRAMA.Oh, hell.
No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight...
My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.
Mistress Weatherwax, you are a natural disputant. No I ain’t!
Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.