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 Quotes
Somewhere around the place I’ve got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger’s Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.
The shortest unit of time in the multiverse in the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one of those that look as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more staircases than storeys and those rows of […]
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.
Dil was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed any more.
“It’s daft, locking us up,” said Nanny. “I’d have had us killed.” – “That’s because you’re basically good,” said Magrat. “The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.
I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people – You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
Lord Downey was an assassin. Or, rather, an Assassin. The capitol letter was important. It separated those curs who went around murdering people for money from the gentlemen who were occasionally consulted by other gentlemen who wished to have removed, for a consideration, any inconvenient razor blades from the candyfloss of life.
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
