Thats how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.
Interpretation
To cope with the vastness of life, we should focus on manageable parts rather than the entirety.
This quote by Terry Pratchett suggests that the overwhelming nature of infinity can be tamed by breaking it down into smaller, more digestible pieces. Instead of being daunted by the endless possibilities and challenges that life presents, we can find peace and survive by addressing them bit by bit, allowing us to navigate through existence with greater ease and understanding.
In practice
In a speech about tackling large projects, one could say, 'That's how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.'
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.
So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but _x000D_ victories.
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