It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and Im speaking the written science fiction, not Star Trek. Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if theyre clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff. – Terry Pratchett
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. – Terry Pratchett
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that cant so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? – Terry Pratchett
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. – Terry Pratchett
Its not just the kid whos spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, its also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because its more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest. – Richard Hammond