Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I have been interested in global web-based communities and emerging technologies since the mid 80's. There is a revolution occurring in global culture at the moment, that will change everything. And it's only just beginning.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

The future belongs to social media. It is egalitarian and inclusive. Social media is not about any country, any language, any colour, any community but it is about human values and that is the underlying link binding humanity.

What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.

If nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do

You cannot live without doing something.

We didn’t have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon on it

If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.

I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.

There is no real difference between work and play - it’s all living.

I have no mission. No one has.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

Living is not breathing but doing.

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.

It's not enough to be busy.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.