I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.

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.

When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself.

Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please.

And I'm hoping that between now and two years from now and four years from now and future election cycles, people have gotten past the hype and the hysteria of these most recent allegations.

Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.

No nation respects a beggar.

The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.

If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now.

I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.