So, 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 VONNEGUTScience is magic that works.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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