"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”
“People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter follows summer. It was not a wrong thing. There were tears, of course, but they were for those who were left; those who had gone on did not need them.”
"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
“If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.”
“If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.”
“If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.”
“I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.”
'People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”'
“If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.”
“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”
“So... we have what the people are interested in, and human interest stories, which is what humans are interested in, and the public interest, which no one is interested in.”
“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”
“'And what would humans be without love?'
RARE, said Death.”
“‘I hate cats.’
Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant.
‘I SEE,’ he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.”
“If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.”
“'And what would humans be without love?'
RARE, said Death.”
“‘There’s a door.’
‘Where does it go?’
‘It stays where it is, I think.’”
“‘There’s a door.’
‘Where does it go?’
‘It stays where it is, I think.’”
“‘I was being persecuted for my beliefs.’
‘That’s terrible,’ said Teppic.
Khuft spat. ‘Damn right. I believed people wouldn’t notice I’d sold them camels with plaster teeth until I was well out of town.’”
(editor’s note: yesterday’s QOTD was from A Hat Full of Sky)
“Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There’d be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn’t know how not to turn people into them.”
“‘I was being persecuted for my beliefs.’
‘That’s terrible,’ said Teppic.
Khuft spat. ‘Damn right. I believed people wouldn’t notice I’d sold them camels with plaster teeth until I was well out of town.’”
(editor’s note: yesterday’s QOTD was from A Hat Full of Sky)
"‘mumblemumblemumble,’ said the Dean defiantly, a rebel without a pause."
"He envied his fellow students who believed in gods that were intangible and lived a long way away on top of some mountain. A fellow could really believe in gods like that. But it was extremely hard to believe in a god when you saw him at breakfast every day."
“I am no’ deid! I’m trying to have a moment o’ existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it’s a puir lookout if a man cannae feel the chilly winds o’ Fate lashing aroound his nethers wi’out folks telling him he’s deid, eh?”
"‘mumblemumblemumble,’ said the Dean defiantly, a rebel without a pause."
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
“I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”
"If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. It was just that, when you came to explain it to a third party, it sounded odd."
“The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage.”
“I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”