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• Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it.
  If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information....
• And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
  -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr....
• Systems have black boxes.
• People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
  -- Bokonon, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr....
• The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city.
  Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad....
• Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
  -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr....
• When I say the magic word to all these people, they will vanish forever.
  I will then say the magic words to you, and you, too, will vanish -- never to be seen again....