Stanisław Lem

Naissance 12 September 1921 · Décès 27 March 2006

Originaire de Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine · Nationalité : Poland · Écrit de la fiction et des essais

Stanisław Herman Lem (ur. 12 lub 13 września 1921 we Lwowie, zm.

Citations

“Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age or rebel against it, but the target of his cooperation or rebellion comes to him from outside.”
Solaris, Chapter 14En anglais
“The number of one’s possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one’s liquid assets. For him who has everything dreams are no longer possible.”
Chapter 4En anglais
“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.”
His Master's Voice, Chapter 11En anglais
“Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.”
Solaris, Chapter 14En anglais
“One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could build anything beginning with the letter ‘n’.”
The CyberiadEn anglais