"Hardly anyone in the world is an American"

-- Kurt Vonnegut

“So much of life is what you roll and where you land.”
“Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.”
“There are all of these people that say, my mommy doesn't love me enough, my daddy doesn't hug me enough. There are some people that would want to coddle them somewhere. I want them to shut up and stop whining.”
“But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.”
“You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.”
“We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?”

Source : Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media
“The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.”
“Progressive rock was happening.”

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