This week's random #fantasy thing: Reading some #TerryPratchett again! (continued rereading The Wee Free Men, and just finished reading the new Finnish translation of Good Omens which was better in some respects but not in the others) Also, started playing #GreedFall on PC.
This week's random #scifi thing: Uh... started Assault Android Cactus on PC, too?
Any true wizard, faced with a sign like ‘Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We’re not kidding. Opening the door will mean the end of the universe,’ would automatically open the door in order to see what all the fuss was about. (Last Continent)
Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beermug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for. (Maskerade)
Este extracto de «Cartas En El Asunto», por lo que sea, se puede extrapolar perfectamente a la Inteligencia Artificial.
Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before.
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus:
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. (Lords and Ladies)
A quotation from Terry Pratchett
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 15, Men at Arms (1993)
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The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of…
The world had too many heroes and didn’t need another one. Whereas the world had only one Rincewind and he owed it to the world to keep this one alive for as long as possible. (Interesting Times)
Nanny Ogg found herself embarrassed even to think about this, and this was unusual because embarrassment normally came as naturally to Nanny as altruism comes to a cat. (Maskerade)
It had always seemed to him that one of the major flaws in the whole business of opera was the audience. They were quite unsuitable. The only ones worse than the ones who didn't know anything at all about music, and whose idea of a sensible observation was 'I liked that bit near the end when her voice went wobbly' were the ones who thought they did .... (Maskerade)
... what was so special about 'special qualities'? Limpets had special qualities.
(Jingo)
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