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How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can't even understand one another?
— Stanislaw Lem
No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.
— Stanislaw Lem
For truly, what computer has not asked whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous instructions?
— Stanislaw Lem
A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.
— Stanislaw Lem
Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to....
Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to. — Stanislaw Lem
I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
— Stanislaw Lem
Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing!
— Stanislaw Lem
All perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions on the surface of the brain cells.
— Stanislaw Lem
She was beautiful all right, beautiful in a way that was at once seductive, demonic, and raspberry.
— Stanislaw Lem
Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.
— Stanislaw Lem
We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.
— Stanislaw Lem
I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.
— Stanislaw Lem
Every science comes with its own pseudo-science, a bizarre distortion that comes from a certain kind of mind.
— Stanislaw Lem
Practically all SF is trash.
— Stanislaw Lem
I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
— Stanislaw Lem
You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.
— Stanislaw Lem
Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.
— Stanislaw Lem
Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard
— Stanislaw Lem
We are the cause of our own sufferings.
— Stanislaw Lem
It is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.
— Stanislaw Lem
Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.
— Stanislaw Lem
If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
— Stanislaw Lem
I believe in no final solutions.
— Stanislaw Lem
Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
— Stanislaw Lem
It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded
— Stanislaw Lem
The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.
— Stanislaw Lem
I always thought there would be ice in hell
— Stanislaw Lem
The Universe is picking us off one by one. Yesterday part of the poop deck went, and with it all the toilets.
— Stanislaw Lem
Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. (tr. by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox)
— Stanislaw Lem
One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could build anything beginning with the letter 'n'.
— Stanislaw Lem
The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
— Stanislaw Lem
A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only.The Twenty-first Voyage — Stanislaw Lem
A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming.
— Stanislaw Lem
Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?
— Stanislaw Lem
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
— Stanislaw Lem
But how can I use a method to discredit that very method, if the method is discreditable?
— Stanislaw Lem
Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way.
— Stanislaw Lem
he could come up with a better idea than anything proposed by all the scientists, the cyberneticians and strategists, with all their computers?
— Stanislaw Lem
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.
— Stanislaw Lem
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
— Stanislaw Lem
We have named all the stars and all the planet, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve!
— Stanislaw Lem
A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.
— Stanislaw Lem
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.
— Stanislaw Lem
I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.
— Stanislaw Lem
I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.
— Stanislaw Lem
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
— Stanislaw Lem
A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.
— Stanislaw Lem
He was addled with April. He was dizzy with Spring. He was as drunk as Lem Forrester on a Saturday night.
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.
— Stanislaw Lem
I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.
— Stanislaw Lem
We're not searching for anything except people. We don't need other worlds. We need mirrors.
— Stanislaw Lem
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
— Stanislaw Lem
I wanted to stop her; in the darkness and silence we occasionally managed to throw off our despair for a while by making each other forget.
— Stanislaw Lem
There was a time we tormented one another with excessive honesty in the naive belief it would save us.
— Stanislaw Lem
Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.
— Stanislaw Lem
The chances that lose in the lottery of being are invisible
— Stanislaw Lem
The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.
— Stanislaw Lem
People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.
— Stanislaw Lem
I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.
— Stanislaw Lem
Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.
— Stanislaw Lem
He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.
— Stanislaw Lem
Books are no longer read but eaten, not made of paper but of some informational substance, fully digestible, sugar-coated.
— Stanislaw Lem
