Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
Kurt VonnegutAnd we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.
Kurt VonnegutHomo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.
Kurt VonnegutHas any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?
Kurt VonnegutWhen I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.
Kurt Vonnegut