{"id":33732,"date":"2015-12-06T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33732"},"modified":"2015-11-26T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:15:12","slug":"qotd-a-few-selected-terry-pratchett-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/06\/qotd-a-few-selected-terry-pratchett-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: A few selected Terry Pratchett quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

1<\/strong> Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.<\/p>\n

2<\/strong> A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.<\/p>\n

3<\/strong> Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.<\/p>\n

4<\/strong> An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.<\/p>\n

5<\/strong> The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.<\/p>\n

6<\/strong> Give a man a fire and he’s warm for the day. But set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n

7<\/strong> Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.<\/p>\n

8<\/strong> In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods. They have not forgotten this.<\/p>\n

9<\/strong> The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.<\/p>\n

10<\/strong> “Educational” refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.<\/p>\n

Selected by Martin Chilton for The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, 2015-08-27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. 2 A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. 3 Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. 4 An education was a bit like a communicable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,57,41],"tags":[632],"class_list":["post-33732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-terrypratchett"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8M4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33733,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33732\/revisions\/33733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}