I wanted to stop her; in the darkness and silence we occasionally managed to throw off our despair for a while by making each other forget. - Stanisław Lem

...it gave me a little plastic book with four fold-outs, maps of the city's transit system. When I wanted to go somewhere, I touched the silver-printed name - street, level, square - and instantly on the map a circuit of all the necessary connections lit up. I could also travel by gleeder. Or by rast. Or - finally - on foot; therefore, four maps

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

And he has created eternity, which was to have measured his power, and which measures his unending defeat.