Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
Meaning of the quote
The quote is saying that even if you try to prove the person wrong or destroy the entire universe, the person doesn't care. It shows that they are confident in their beliefs and won't be bothered by any challenges or attempts to disprove them. The person is basically daring you to try your best, but they don't think you can actually change their mind or the way the world works.
About Terry Prachett
Terry Pratchett was an acclaimed English author best known for his Discworld fantasy novels. He was a prolific writer, producing over 40 books, and received numerous awards for his contributions to literature. Despite being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease late in his life, Pratchett remained an influential and beloved figure in the literary world until his passing in 2015.
More quotes from Terry Prachett
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don’t know how to do it, and wouldn’t be any good at it if I did, so I’m going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.
I mean, I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I’m me.
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
Freedom without limits is just a word.
Build a man a fire and he’ll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
You can’t remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn’t have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.
This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.
I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.
I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
‘Educational’ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.
Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‘Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?’
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.