Not only does God play dice with the world—He does not let us see what He has rolled. - Stanisław Lem

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.

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.

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.