One college professor loves to tell his students "By the time he was your age, Alexander the Great had conquered the world." His favorite comeback from the students? "He had Aristotle as a teacher, we only have you."

well this has got me in a mood
"These sad saps. They come to Rapture thinking they're gonna be captains of industry, but they all forget that somebody's gotta scrub the toilets. "

and
"In a world where all children live their dreams
There would be fifty million astronauts and no one else left to build the rockets.
Never mind feed everyone.
No one wants to work in a soup kitchen all their lives

In a world where all children live their dreams
We'd be a nation of singers and football players
Movie stars and wags and billionnaire entrepreneurs.
But no one would ever get paid
cos there would be no accountants
Don't forget we're talking about a world
where all children live their dreams

The girls would all go back in time, be medieval princess
The boys would go the future and be cybernetic space adventurers.
and separating all potential mates across dimensional planes
won't help the species propagate.
Which is probably for the best, cos children don't dream about sex.
Not in a good way anyway.

In a world where all children live their dreams
I will have succeeded in my childhood dream of destroying the universe and everything in it.
I realise this may clash with someone else's childhood dream of saving the universe from me.
But it's paradoxes like these that seem to prove my point that this isnt a workable choice
Feck your childhood dreams. They suck.
Feck your childhood dreams. Grow up.
Just get shaved and toilet trained.
You'll be okay."