Terry Pratchett Quotes

I like games that are simple. Not games that are trivial, but also not games that require you to invest a week or to relearn something. I like games that you can just pick up, sit down in front of, and get going.

Any game plan? Xypher asked Sin. Don't die. I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. Kat scoffed at his sarcasm. What are you bitching about, Xypher? You're already dead. He laughed. You know, for once, it's good to be me.

Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

There's no jealousy in the grave.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

Life's a game-and I happen to know how to play.

The game taught me the game.

Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.

All my works are games, serious game.

To become immortal, and then to die.

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

The game will fade one day. I realize that success is one thing; impact is another. I live to impact people.

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.

I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.