Terry Pratchett Quantum Quotes

#1. So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Bill Bruford

#2. I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

David Letterman

#3. I have a very difficult time describing my music.

Les Claypool

#4. I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

Brendan Fraser

#5. I've always been really opinionated, and mixed with being really open hearted, open to people shifting what I think all the time, but I like to speak with conviction.

Alanis Morissette

#6. What're quantum mechanics?"
"I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Your body is the physical record of your life story as you've lived it until today.

Deepak Chopra

#8. Decisions, by all accounts, including those of the participants, were made with little knowledge of, or concern for, the lands and peoples about which and whom the decisions were being made.

David Fromkin

#9. But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. Y'know,' he said, 'it's very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Centuries ago, you told me that you were born for me, and I for you. You told me you'd convince me of that one day. You have." Through his caring. And his patience and generosity. His selfless protection. "Damn

Kresley Cole

#12. We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Neil Postman

#13. The wizards were good at wind, weather being a matter not of force but of lepidoptery. As Archchancellor Ridcully said, you just had to know where the damn butterflies were.

Terry Pratchett

#14. It was of course Jefferson's gift at one time or another to put with eloquence the "right" answer to every moral question. In practice, however, he seldom deviated from an opportunistic course, calculated to bring him power.

Gore Vidal

#15. To be a great man think like them and behave like them but do not repeat their mistakes

Mohammed Sekouty

#16. You have to be more discerning, Lily, when experimenting with bondage."
He wiggled his eyebrows. "I'd make a great master.

Christine Feehan

#17. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat
could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

Terry Pratchett

#18. I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.

Christopher Moore

#19. Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.

Henry Mintzberg

#20. But if it is true that the act of observing changes the thing which is observed (because of Quantum), it's even more true that it changes the observer.

Terry Pratchett