It’s what we wanted: contact with another civilization. We … - Stanisław Lem

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It’s what we wanted: contact with another civilization. We have it, this contact! Our own monstrous ugliness, our own buffoonery and shame, magnified as if it was under a microscope!

Stanisław Lem

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Stanisław Lem (12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish satirical, philosophical, and science fiction writer.

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Alternative Names: Stanislav Lem

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Dopóki nie skorzystałem z Internetu, nie wiedziałem, że na świecie jest tylu idiotów.

"And do you believe in God?" "I do." "But you didn't think a robot would, right?" "Right."

The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.

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