Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the… — Kurt Vonnegut

How embarrassing to be human.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.