Caroline

“One can, to be sure, program a digital machine in such a way as to be able to carry on a conversation with it, as if with an intelligent partner. The machine will employ, as the need arises, the pronoun “I” and all its grammatical inflections. This, however, is a hoax! The machine will still be closer to a billion chattering parrots—howsoever brilliantly trained the parrots be—than to the simplest, most stupid man. It mimics the behavior of a man on the purely linguistic plane and nothing more.”
― Stanisław Lem, A Perfect Vacuum

“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
― Aristophanes

“Books are the province of romantics and humanists, not heartless nerds.”
― Nicholas Negroponte

“No insults, please!" said Pugg. "For I am not your usual uncouth pirate, but refined and with a Ph.D., and therefore extremely high-strung.”
― Stanisław Lem, The Cyberiad