“I always thought there would be ice in hell”
― The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
― The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
“There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all matters”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.”
― Solaris
― Solaris
“And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions of the system, and had used it for bringing people to things, instead of for bringing things to people. Those funny old days, when men went for change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms!”
― The Machine Stops
― The Machine Stops
“The opportunity for evil in itself does not suffice; people need a rationale as well. Consider how unpleasant, how awkward it must be when your neighbor, catching his breath (and that can happen anytime), screams, 'Why?' - or, 'Aren't you ashamed?!' It's embarrassing to stand there without a ready answer. A crowbar makes a poor rebuttal, everybody senses that. The whole trick lies in having the proper grounds to brush aside such aggravating objections. Contemptuously. Everyone wants to commit a villainy without having to feel like a villain.”
― The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
― The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
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