Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions.

Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for the very reason of solving problems such as theirs. However, there is one thing that the medical profession cannot do and that is save people from being idiots.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.

I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.

Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.

That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going out and doing them. As ugly a truth as that is, I do think it's the truth about the world.

What [Donald] Trump is essentially saying is what has always been the case: America is the solution to the problems of the world. But to [Barack] Obama and Hillary [Clinton] and many on the left, America's the problem. America and its superpower status is the problem in the world.

I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.