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Stanislaw Lem quotes: How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can't even understand one another? How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can't even understand one another?
Stanislaw Lem quotes: No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets. No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: For truly, what computer has not asked whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous instructions? For truly, what computer has not asked whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous instructions?
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain? Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?
Stanislaw Lem quotes: I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence. I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud. A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to. ... Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to. Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to.
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Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments. I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing! Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing!
Stanislaw Lem quotes: All perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions on the surface of the brain cells. All perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions on the surface of the brain cells.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: A dream will always triumph over reality , once it is given a chance.. A dream will always triumph over reality , once it is given a chance..
Stanislaw Lem quotes: But what am I going to see?I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you. But what am I going to see?
I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: She was beautiful all right, beautiful in a way that was at once seductive, demonic, and raspberry. She was beautiful all right, beautiful in a way that was at once seductive, demonic, and raspberry.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote. Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly. Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos. 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 quotes: Something peculiar is happening to my head. I remember that my father was Barnaby, but I had another named Balaton. Unless that's a lake in Albania. Something peculiar is happening to my head. I remember that my father was Barnaby, but I had another named Balaton. Unless that's a lake in Albania.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds. I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Every science comes with its own pseudo-science, a bizarre distortion that comes from a certain kind of mind. Every science comes with its own pseudo-science, a bizarre distortion that comes from a certain kind of mind.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Practically all SF is trash. Practically all SF is trash.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained. I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one. You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere. 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 quotes: Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard
Stanislaw Lem quotes: War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture. War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: We are the cause of our own sufferings. We are the cause of our own sufferings.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: It is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches. It is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom. Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky? If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
Stanislaw Lem quotes: I believe in no final solutions. I believe in no final solutions.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort. Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded
Stanislaw Lem quotes: The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes. The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: I always thought there would be ice in hell I always thought there would be ice in hell
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist. Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: The Universe is picking us off one by one. Yesterday part of the poop deck went, and with it all the toilets. The Universe is picking us off one by one. Yesterday part of the poop deck went, and with it all the toilets.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could build anything beginning with the letter 'n'. One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could build anything beginning with the letter 'n'.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. (tr. by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox) 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 quotes: A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only.The Twenty-first Voyage 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 quotes: ;he was at home whenever he could quench his thirst for knowledge; ... ;he was at home whenever he could quench his thirst for knowledge; ...
Stanislaw Lem quotes: But how can I use a method to discredit that very method, if the method is discreditable? But how can I use a method to discredit that very method, if the method is discreditable?
Stanislaw Lem quotes: The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature. The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Ants that encounter in their path a dead philosopher may make good use of him. Ants that encounter in their path a dead philosopher may make good use of him.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: 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. 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 quotes: he could come up with a better idea than anything proposed by all the scientists, the cyberneticians and strategists, with all their computers? 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming. A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything. One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not? Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?
Stanislaw Lem quotes: We have named all the stars and all the planet, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve! 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 quotes: Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child. Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled. Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Every part contained a memory of the other parts it was directly attached to. Every part contained a memory of the other parts it was directly attached to.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me. I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up. 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 quotes: Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other. A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass. The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes. I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: It was not possible to think except with one's brain, no one could stand outside himself in order to check the functioning of his inner processes. It was not possible to think except with one's brain, no one could stand outside himself in order to check the functioning of his inner processes.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: We're not searching for anything except people. We don't need other worlds. We need mirrors. We're not searching for anything except people. We don't need other worlds. We need mirrors.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork? Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
Stanislaw Lem quotes: 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. 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 quotes: There was a time we tormented one another with excessive honesty in the naive belief it would save us. There was a time we tormented one another with excessive honesty in the naive belief it would save us.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely. Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: The chances that lose in the lottery of being are invisible The chances that lose in the lottery of being are invisible
Stanislaw Lem quotes: The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself. The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: From strawberries under torture one may extract all sorts of things. From strawberries under torture one may extract all sorts of things.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: People make filthy things with the freedom they regained. People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy. When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet. I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it. Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had. He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Books are no longer read but eaten, not made of paper but of some informational substance, fully digestible, sugar-coated. Books are no longer read but eaten, not made of paper but of some informational substance, fully digestible, sugar-coated.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: And he has created eternity, which was to have measured his power, and which measures his unending defeat. And he has created eternity, which was to have measured his power, and which measures his unending defeat.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
Stanislaw Lem quotes: Retribution for the death of comrades who had perished because they were sent to that death ... Retribution for the death of comrades who had perished because they were sent to that death ...

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