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The first thing Tak did, he wrote himself. The second thing Tak did, he wrote the Laws. The third thing Tak did, he wrote the World. The fourth thing Tak did, he wrote a cave. The fifth thing Tak did, he wrote a geode,

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN? Death, Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man (1991) original post

Instead he took his pocket electronics box - calculator, phone, computer terminal, alarm clock, and calendar, an invention of his own that someday he’d market … Oath of Fealty, 1981 original post

Down there,“ [Vetinari] said, "are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness

THERE IS A PLACE WHERE TWO GALAXIES HAVE BEEN COLLIDING FOR A MILLION YEARS, said Death, apropos of nothing. DON’T TRY TO TELL ME THAT’S RIGHT. “Yes, but people don’t think about that,” said Susan. “Somewhere there was a bed…” CORRECT.

In a hundred years we’ll all be dead, but here and now, we are alive. Brutha (Small Gods) original post

… no practical definition of freedom would be completely without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based. Lord Havelock Vetinari, Going Postal (Terry Pratchett) original post

Them as can do has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices. Terry Pratchett     Wee Free Men    Granny Aching (via peasantwisdom) original post

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a

You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through

Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you based on how you got in that situation. Drove drunk, got in an accident and need an organ transplant? No problem. Messing around with a gun, accidentally shoot yourself in

Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs. They took wolves and gave them human things: unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and

You know what? I know I brought this up, but I don’t really want to talk about it anymore. I… don’t ask me to explain the honey badger’s motivations, okay? I’m the victim here. original

Down there are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin,

You can get much further with a kind word and an unstoppable battle-hardened space fleet than you can with a kind word alone. original post

Dynamic web fonts are coming. Actually they’re already here, but most of Our People haven’t noticed yet. But they will, and that’s going to be a huge boon to somebody. I see you’ve decided that it won’t be you.

I know ‘elite’ is a bad word in politics, and you wanna go bowling and throw back a few beers. But the job you’re applying for, if you get it, and it goes well, they might carve your head into

One more thing for Senator McCain before this old bird goes to bed. Ronald Reagan is dead. Let it go. Margaret and Helen original post

I have instructed my wife to exclude you from any future dinner parties. Guess who’s not coming to dinner :: rogerebert.com original post

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. Ashley Montague original post

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. Norman Mailer, via The Quotations Page original post

The problem is that over time, the web has become a Massively Parallel Distributed Network of Kids in Podunk. Everywhere you look, people are doing things of such great coolness that you hardly feel you can keep up. This magazine is full of these

The number of children under the age of 17 shot by guns in America every year is greater than the gun-related deaths of children in all the industrialized nations of the world COMBINED. It’s Good to See Some Outrage | Cosmic Variance original post

The guy who does XKCD is trying to hijack an apparantly pointless viral advertizing campaign. That idea tickles my fancy, so: We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm

We dreamers need a light touch. Otherwise we get into trouble. We get into trouble when the gap between our dreams and our lives is too wide and too deep. We fall in. Life happens in the particulars. It’s the tangible stuff.