Цитаты из аудиокниги «Поддай пару!», страница 5

Going slowly and being thorough is the only way forward.

After all, at the beginning there was the man who could make stone tools, and then along came the man who made bronze and so the first man had to either learn to make bronze too, or get into a different line of work completely. And the man who could work bronze would be put out of work by the man who could work iron. And just as that man was congratulating himself for being a smarty-pants, along came the man who made steel. It’s like a sort of dance, where no one dares stop because if you did stop you’d be left behind. But isn’t that just the world in a nutshell?

Mister Lipwig, the world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can. And in my experience, those who say that it can be done are usually telling the truth.

Неопределенность всегда неопределенна, а трудность с людьми, которые всегда полагаются на систему, состоит в том, что все на свете кажется им систематичным, и рано или поздно они становятся бюрократами.

Moist turned to Vetinari and said, with a flat face, ‘Yes, how about it … gaffer?’ And got a look like a stiletto. A look that said, we’ll have words about this later.

Adora Belle was, as even she knew, a creatively bad cook, mostly because she thought cookery a waste of time for a woman with even half a mind.

He reflected that, from a distance, the world might conceivably look to be at peace, a state of affairs that always ends in war, eventually.

Yes, politics. The secret glue that stopped the world falling into warfare.

... лицо, которое вы носите на поле боя, должно оставаться серьезным, пока все не приведут в порядок, и реальный мир не займет свое место.

... [он] был полон маленьких моноложиков, сменяющих друг друга в его голове, но в конце-концов, поскольку все они были его монологами, они решили собраться вместе, как один цельный [человек] , и выдержать, и победить, несмотря ни на что.