“Getting 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.”
― Hogfather
― Hogfather
“It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.”
― Snow Crash
― Snow Crash
“Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.”
― Quicksilver
― Quicksilver
“To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.”
― Cigar Box Banjo: Notes on Music and Life
― Cigar Box Banjo: Notes on Music and Life
“His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience -- the experience of reading someone else's thoughts -- over real life. ”
― Knots & Crosses
― Knots & Crosses
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