The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.
Stanislaw LemA smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.
Stanislaw LemI felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
Stanislaw LemI never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.
Stanislaw Lem