Discobot Quote Prompter

I think we can benefit from Discobot’s presence on Discourse by involving him/her/it in a game. I don’t know whether it is a fruitful idea or not but it may work.

The rules are simple:

  1. Ask the bot to provide a quote.
  2. Wait for the bot to come up with the quote.
  3. Post your own quote, as a reaction to the one produced by the bot.

Having fun with quotes can be the best part in this game. The tricky part is reacting to the bot - I can’t tell whether players will consider it a challenge or a nuisance.

Having said that, I’ll start:

@discobot quote

:left_speech_bubble: Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. — James Pence

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

– Alan Kay

@discobot quote

:left_speech_bubble: To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as ones own in the midst of abundance. — Buddha

“Fools names like fools faces, always found in public places” ??

@discobot quote

:left_speech_bubble: You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in. — Heraclitus

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.
Michael Jordan

Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.

Okay so lesson learned. Respond to DBots post and it gives the help message.

The game must simplified as follows:

1. Post your reaction to the previous quote. Your reaction should be in the form of a quote.
2. Ask the bot to provide a quote for the next player.


I will react to this:

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”

– Robert Frost


Now I will invoke the bot’s quote for the next player:

@discobot quote

:left_speech_bubble: The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself. — Confucius

@discobot Org. that’s not lax at LAX

“We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration.”
– Ambrose Bierce

@discobot quote

:left_speech_bubble: You can be what you want to be. You have the power within and we will help you always. — Byron Pulsifer

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

– Oscar Wilde


@discobot quote

:left_speech_bubble: The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. — Robert McKain

“Dream enormously big…”

@discobot quote

It looks like the inanimate component of the game is sabotaging the game. Let me check.


@discobot quote

ETA: I guess the bot got stuck or there was a temporary glitch.

:left_speech_bubble: To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Stevenson