I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy. Kurt Vonnegut More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut More Quotes From Kurt Vonnegut Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. Kurt Vonnegut luckmenhands I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing. Kurt Vonnegut scientistfeel-betternames Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic. Kurt Vonnegut moonmistakewriting This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be. Kurt Vonnegut carejudgingdoe The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. Kurt Vonnegut struggle-between-good-and-evilmafiaorganization Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies. Kurt Vonnegut scum-of-the-earthsaintmay A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible. Kurt Vonnegut littlespeoplethinking Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed. Kurt Vonnegut harvardkids I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen. Kurt Vonnegut good-citizenshipcitizenshipwriting Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead. Kurt Vonnegut Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score. Kurt Vonnegut scoreliteratureart Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. Kurt Vonnegut typewriterswritingthinking In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine. Kurt Vonnegut storiesbrainlooks If you can do no good, at least do no harm. Kurt Vonnegut slapstickharmcan-do We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love. Kurt Vonnegut young I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. Kurt Vonnegut vandalismgoes-oninsanity Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas. Kurt Vonnegut crazyfightingkids Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer. Kurt Vonnegut billsmiraclewaiting Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet. Kurt Vonnegut ballsbeautifulthinking Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. Kurt Vonnegut complainingmistakethinking
