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The only way to deal with technology is with another technology. Man knows more about his dangerous tendencies than he did a hundred years ago, and in the next hundred years, his knowledge will be even more advanced. Then he will make use of it.

— Stanisław Lem Summa Technologiae (1964)

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If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

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