Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
Kurt VonnegutOne thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.
Kurt VonnegutSometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.
Kurt VonnegutA lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
Kurt VonnegutSo, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
Kurt VonnegutPowers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ..."The Sermon on the Mount, sir." That's important.
Kurt Vonnegut