“Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every living creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. it amuses them that so many… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Lionel Merble was a machine. Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. It amuses… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Don't you see, Doctor?" said Lasher. "The machines are to practically everbody what the white men were to the Indians. People are… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Just about every adult human being back then had a brain weighing about three kilogrammes! There was no end to the evil… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The machines are to practically everybody what the white men were to the Indians. People are finding that, because of the way… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The Sovereignty of the United States resides in the people, not in the machines, and it's the people's to take back, if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“His situation, insofar as he was a machine, was complex, tragic, and laughable. But the sacred part of him, his awareness, remained… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Your parents were fighting machines and self-pitying machines. Your mother was programmed to bawl out your father for being a defective moneymaking… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The four had come to an exciting decision" during the six months of the blockade threatened by the authorities, they would make… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir:” he read, “You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Ridiculous! Why don’t you go into gunrunning, and sell the ancient Athenians a couple of machine guns so they can win the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She was a defective child-bearing machine. She destroyed herself automatically while giving birth to Dwayne.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When machines start delivering themselves,” I said, “I guess that’s when the people better start really worrying.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings," said Paul, "not to serve as appendages… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I hope you know that television and computers are no more your friends, and no more increasers of your brainpower, than slot… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
