# Quote — Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

> "If only it weren't for the people, the goddamned people," said Finnerty, "always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren't for them, earth would be an engineer's paradise."

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Book: [Player Piano](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Player_Piano_(1952)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano/if-only-it-werent

## More from this book

> You know, in a way I wish I hadn't met you two. It's much more convenient to think of the opposition as a nice homogeneous, dead-wrong mass. Now I've got to muddy my thinking with exceptions.

p. 91 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano/you-know-in-a-way.md)

> It was an appalling thought, to be so well-integrated into the machinery of society and history as to be able to move in only one plane, and along one line.

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano/it-was-an-appalling.md)

> "Why are you quitting?"
>
> "Sick of my job."
>
> "Because what you were doing was morally bad?" suggested the voice.
>
> "Because it wasn't getting anybody anywhere. Because it was getting everybody nowhere."
>
> "Because it was evil?" insisted the voice.
>
> "Because it was pointless."

p. 271 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano/why-are-you.md)