Quote of the Day: 23 June 2026 #QotD

“We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends toward guesswork.” -Didactylos, Small Gods
[The future is opaque. We can make some informed guesses about things, but they are only guesses.]

Quote of the Day: 16 May 2026 #QotD

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.” -Terry Pratchett
[But the experience along the way is exquisite.]

Quote of the Day: 9 April 2026 #QotD

“But this is today. It’s soon going to be tomorrow and things can change.” -Mrs. Eunice Proust, The Shepherd’s Crown
[Change is always in the air. Is that a warning or an encouragement? Who knows? But change will happen.]

Quote of the Day: 5 March 2026 #QotD

“Just because you can explain it doesn’t mean it’s not still a miracle.” -Brutha, Small Gods
[In fact, it is more miraculous that we can comprehend the miracle. Especially, the more complicated things we understand now that we've had centuries to continue investigating things.]

Quote of the Day: 26 January 2026 #QotD

“People might not understand—might make up stories. I don’t care. You do the job that is in front of you.” -Tiffany Aching, I Shall Wear Midnight
[There's definitely something to be said for putting your head down and getting the job done regardless of what goes on around you. People like that tend to make an impact on the world around them. Whether that's for good or ill, and large or small scale. They matter to the world in a way that most people just don't.]

Quote of the Day: 18 December 2025 #QotD

“Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.” -Brutha (thought), Small Gods
[There are times when everything seems possible and afterward comes the time to implement all the grand plans, and you find that implementation stinks. It's all hard work.]

Quote of the Day: 10 November 2025 #QotD

“Don’t you know anything? Bodies aren’t just handy things for storing your mind in. Your shape affects how you think.” -Om, Small Gods
[As amusing as this is stated, it loses nothing in its veracity.]

Quote of the Day: 26 July 2025 #QotD

“Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.” -Terry Pratchett
[And the consequences of a relapse are quite dire.]

Quote of the Day: 24 June 2025 #QotD

“But the reward for lots of work seemed to be lots more. If you dug the biggest hole, they just gave you a bigger shovel.” -Tiffany Aching (thought), The Shepherd’s Crown
[It sure seems that way much of the time.]

Quote of the Day: 24 May 2025 #QotD

“We need to remember.” -Tiffany Aching, The Shepherd’s Crown
[Absolutely. There are very few things I will commit to as strongly as our need to remember, both as individuals and as a society. Without a memory we are left bereft of any guiding influence.]

Quote of the Day: 24 April 2025 #QotD

“It was wild, it was exhilarating, it was almost getting killed—and the almost bit is what made it something they would feel able to talk about later, though clearly getting killed would shut up most people.” -Terry Pratchett
[That's the razor's edge adrenaline seekers ride. Many of them fall to one side or the other eventually. But it is something that can invigorate your life for a while.]

Quote of the Day: 25 March 2025 #QotD

“We humans definitely need other people to keep us human.” -Tiffany Aching, The Shepherd’s Crown
[Yes, we do. And preferably a broad cross section of humanity from young to old, from those engaged in physical labor to those who do thought work. It grounds you in a way that helps you retain perspective about what actually matters.]

Quote of the Day: 25 January 2025 #QotD

“[A] kind of ratchet formed in people’s minds: here is the new thing and here it is. And yesterday you never thought about it and after today you don’t know what you would do without it.” -Moist von Lipwig (thought), Raising Steam
[I could name several things rather quickly where this principle has happened to me, personally. I also think I could come up with several more if I tried to. You probably could, too.]

Quote of the Day: 30 December 2024 #QotD

“You must know it’s the little people who’re the last to be thought of when great tribes go to war.” -Slam, Raising Steam
[Even in our world today, this remains true.]

Quote of the Day: 4 December 2024 #QotD

“The thing about being embarrassed is that sooner or later you aren’t, but you remember that you were.” -Blodwen Rhysson, Raising Steam
[And hopefully that is enough to help you remember and make changes to your character so that you won't be embarrassed in the same way again.]

Quote of the Day: 8 November 2024 #QotD

“People who probably weren’t bad could kill you.” -Terry Pratchett
[This is true whether these people mean to kill you or not. They could be motivated by mistaken beliefs, misplaced animus, or something else. Or they may not be motivated to kill you at all, and it is entirely a second order effect, or an unintended outcome. None of that would make you any less dead, though.]

Quote of the Day: 14 October 2024

“He has won a little battle and a man who can win little battles is well set up to win big ones.” Havelock Vetinari, Snuff
[Particularly if he realizes he has done so. Little victories build to bigger ones.]

Quote of the Day: 21 September 2024 #QotD

“There was no point in making it easy for people. Life wasn’t easy[.]” -Granny Weatherwax (attributed), Wintersmith
[Never mind that we all want it to be.]

Quote of the Day: 30 August 2024 #QotD

“[Y]ou should never react to any comment or situation until you had decided exactly what you were going to do. This had the dual attraction of preventing you from saying or doing the wrong thing while at the same time making other people extremely nervous.” -Commander Samuel Vimes (thought), Snuff
[Getting the other person wrongfooted can be a tremendous advantage. Just what you may want.]

Quote of the Day: 9 August 2024 #QotD

“In short, Margolotta, peace is what you have while incubating the next war.” -Havelock Vetinari, Raising Steam
[It sure feels like it sometimes.]