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“I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.”
― Stanislaw Lem

“The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.”
― Stanisław Lem, Highcastle: A Remembrance

“What is truth?" Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“One of the most incredible secrets of science fiction (although one not too closely guarded) is the fact that 99 percent of its authors do not know even the titles and authors of today's learned works, but still they want to top these scholars with their knowledge of the year 6000.”
― Stanisław Lem, Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy