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Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
Stanislaw Lem
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Stanislaw Lem
Age: 84 †
Born: 1921
Born: September 12
Died: 2006
Died: March 27
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Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred.
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I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.
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We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us but we can't accept it for what it is.
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I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.
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Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.
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A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.
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That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...
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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
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Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.
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I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.
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...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.
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The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.
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Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We submit to the blackmail of the 'superior knowledge' that has the temerity to assert that nuclear war can be, by derivation, a good thing, because this follows from simple arithmetic.
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It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.
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I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.
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If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.
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Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life yet here we are faced with a prevaricated truth and an authentic fake, hence a thing that is at once the truth and a lie.
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Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.
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