Home > Work > The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

The Long War (The Long Earth, #2) QUOTES

The Long War (The Long Earth, #2) QUOTES

1 " The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

2 " If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

3 " Joshua, cynicism is the only reasonable response to the antics of humanity. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

4 " The nice thing about artificial intelligence is that at least it's better than artificial stupidity. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

5 " The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

6 " And there's no such thing as too much back-up. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

7 " ...As long as they let me just talk to the kids, about stuff like, I don't know, knife usage, field medicine for beginners. How to make the night sky your ally, with the Big Dipper a place to hang your hat, and Orion your friend to guide you home. That's what I would have wanted to hear, back then... "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

8 " We could try the Turin test," said Lobsang.
"Oh, machines have been able to pass the Turing test for years."
"No, the Turin test. We both pray for an hour, and see if God can tell the difference. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

9 " We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

10 " We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

11 " ...our citizens must be protected, even from being dumb, which is not a crime. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

12 " Wow. Pioneers with ice-cream."
Joshua felt motivated to defend his home. "Well, it doesn't have to be like the Donner Party, Sally- "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

13 " A pioneer family lived beyond the reach of shopping malls... "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

14 " Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan... "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

15 " The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

16 " By now there were whole new Industrial Revolutions going on in the Low Earths; the British seemed to have the building of steam engines and railways in their genes. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

17 " He took refuge in the concept that sometimes slowest is the fastest in the end. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

18 " What was the nature of the universe into which she had been born? Why did it exist at all? If it had a purpose, what was it? These seemed to her the only questions worth exploring. And the only valid technique evolved by humans for exploring such questions was the scientific method, a robust and self-correcting search for the truth. Yet it had become obvious to her since about the age of twelve that science as it had progressed so far – physics, chemistry, biology, all the rest – had only inched towards grappling with the true questions, the fundamentals. Those questions had only been addressed by theologians and philosophers, it seemed to her. Unfortunately, their answers were a mush of doubt, self-delusion and flummery that had probably done more harm than good. And yet that was all there was. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

19 " We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)

20 " ...the story of colonial-era America, rerun across an infinite frontier...All of which was fine, until the day you needed root-canal dentistry. Or your e-book reader broke down. Or you worried whether your kids were ever going to learn anything more than how to plough a field or trap a rabbit. Or you got sick of the mosquitoes. Or, damn it, you just wanted to go shopping. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)