I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.
Interpretation
The quote humorously suggests that insanity is a common trait among people from a particular place, making the idea of fame seem improbable.
Terry Pratchett's quote playfully reflects on the eccentricities of his surroundings, implying that the unique and bizarre characteristics of the individuals in a given place make it unlikely for anyone to achieve fame. It underscores the notion that societal norms and expectations can heavily influence one's path to success, and that sometimes, the very traits that might seem like hindrances could also be integral to one's identity and creativity.
In practice
Using this quote to break the ice in a humorous speech about local talent.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.
I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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