Whose Dreams?

My brother got his doctorate in 1938, I think.  If he had gone to work in Germany after that, he would have been helping to make Hitler's dreams come true.  If he had gone to work in Italy, he would have been helping to make Mussolini's dreams come true.  If he had gone to work in Japan, he would have been helping to make Tojo's dreams come true.  If he had gone to work in the Soviet Union, he would have been helping to make Stalin's dreams come true.  He went to work for a bottle manufacturer in Butler, Pennsylvania, instead.  It can make quite a difference not just to you but to humanity: the sort of boss you choose, whose dreams you help come true.

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (11 November 1922 – 11 April 2007), American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, Speech at MIT (1985), referring to his brother Bernard Vonnegut, and the choices available to scientists and the intelligent, to serve humanity, or to betray it, as published in Fates Worse Than Death (1991), Ch. 12