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Stanisław Lem Quotes

1921–2006 Poland

Stanisław Lem (12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish satirical, philosophical, and science fiction writer.

Poland
Essayists
Philosophers
Satirists

Also known as: Lem, Stanislaw, Lem, Stanisław, Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (novel)

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Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

His Master's Voice (1968)

I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation. Since she had gone, that was all that remained. I did not know what achievements, what mockery, even what tortures still awaited me. I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past.

Solaris (1961)

Until I started using the Internet, I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world.

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