Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sex, Technology, Thinking

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.17, Seven Stories Press

• 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. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, War, College

• Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Technology, Electronics, Live By

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.60, Dial Press

• All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Technology, United States, Machines

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2005.

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