Mike

“The world is always new,” said Coro Mena, “however old its roots.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest

“...three thousand dream houses for three thousand families with presumably identical dreams.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“Well, it just don’t seem like nobody feels he’s worth a crap to nobody no more, and it’s a hell of a screwy thing, people gettin’ buggered by things they made theirselves.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“Well...what you did in Rosewater County was far from insane. It was quite possibly the most important social experiment of our time, for it dealt on a very small scale with a problem whose queasy horrors will eventually be made world-wide by the sophistication of machines. The problem is this: How to love people who have no use?
In time, almost all men and women will become worthless as producers of goods, food, services, and more machines, as sources of practical ideas in the areas of economics, engineering, and probably medicine, too. So - if we can't find reasons and methods for treasuring human beings because they are _human beings_, then we might as well, as has so often been suggested, rub them out.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater