# Discobot Quote Prompter
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [July 16, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512 "2020-07-16T18:03:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/1 "2020-07-16T18:03:03Z")
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
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/2 "2020-07-16T18:03:05Z")
> 🗨 _Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible._ — James Pence
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### Author:  [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/3 "2020-07-16T18:03:49Z")
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
– Alan Kay
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### Author:  [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/4 "2020-07-16T18:22:11Z")
@discobot quote
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/5 "2020-07-16T18:22:14Z")
> 🗨 _To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as ones own in the midst of abundance._ — Buddha
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/6 "2020-07-16T18:31:25Z")
“Fools names like fools faces, always found in public places” ??
@discobot quote
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/7 "2020-07-16T18:31:29Z")
> 🗨 _You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in._ — Heraclitus
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### Author:  [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/8 "2020-07-16T18:34:35Z")
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
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/9 "2020-07-16T18:34:37Z")
Hi! To find out what I can do, say `@discobot display help`.
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### Author:  [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/10 "2020-07-16T18:35:56Z")
Okay so lesson learned. Respond to DBots post and it gives the help message.
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### Author:  [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/11 "2020-07-16T18:39:58Z")
**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.**
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I will react to this:
> [@discobot](#):
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> _You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in._ — Heraclitus
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
– Robert Frost
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Now I will invoke the bot’s quote for the next player:
@discobot quote
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/12 "2020-07-16T18:40:01Z")
> 🗨 _The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself._ — Confucius
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### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/13 "2020-07-16T18:43:17Z")
@discobot Org. that’s not lax at LAX
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### Author:  [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/14 "2020-07-16T18:51:14Z")
“We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration.”
– Ambrose Bierce
@discobot quote
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/15 "2020-07-16T18:51:18Z")
> 🗨 _You can be what you want to be. You have the power within and we will help you always._ — Byron Pulsifer
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### Author:  [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/16 "2020-07-16T18:53:24Z")
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
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@discobot quote
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/17 "2020-07-16T18:53:26Z")
> 🗨 _The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first._ — Robert McKain
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/18 "2020-07-16T19:07:51Z")
“Dream enormously big…”
@discobot quote
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### Author:  [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/19 "2020-07-16T19:13:01Z")
It looks like the inanimate component of the game is sabotaging the game. Let me check.
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@discobot quote
ETA: I guess the bot got stuck or there was a temporary glitch.
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### Author:  [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discobot-quote-prompter/915512/20 "2020-07-16T19:13:04Z")
> 🗨 _To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life._ — Robert Stevenson
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