# Quote — Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

> If he keeps going at his present rate, working night and day, the number of people he’s saved will equal the number of people he let die – in the year 3010.

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Book: [Cat's Cradle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle.md)
- Original (de): Dr Julian Castle about Dr Schlichter von Koenigswald; chapter 83
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/if-he-keeps

## More from this book

> Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.'

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/of-all-the.md)

> “Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/maturity-bokonon-tells.md)

> A pissant is somebody who thinks he’s so damn smart, he never can keep his mouth shut. No matter what anybody says, he’s got to argue with it. You say you like something, and, by God, he’ll tell you why you’re wrong to like it. A pissant does his best to make you feel like a boob all the time. No matter what you say, he knows better.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/a-pissant-is-somebody.md)