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Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
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Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.
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No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable
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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.
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The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
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I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.
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Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.
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Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.
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Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
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He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard, he muttered. You don't understand at all, said the wizard wearily. I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you.
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It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course.
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Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.
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I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.
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And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
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The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
Terry Pratchett
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 and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
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Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
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Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.
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Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
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