It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.

I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It's always what's appealing or what's cool.

People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience.

We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.