Terry Pratchett Quotes about Language

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As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

Terry Pratchett

Trying, Fruit, Language

Radio Show "Relatively Einstein" ("Fantasy Physics", Episode 3), www.bbc.co.uk. January 18, 2005.

It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.

Terry Pratchett

Giving Up, Normal, Language

Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.209, Random House

My programming language was solder.

Terry Pratchett

Language, Programming, Programming Languages

On his early computers, from a talk "When I Were A Lad, We Used To Dream of 64K" at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, Scotland, August 2005.