"The theme he stresses in most of his work is that machines will someday be as human as Homo sapiens and perhaps superior to him. Mr. Lem has an almost Dickensian genius for vividly realizing the tragedy and comedy of future machines; the death of one of his androids or computers actually wrings sorrow from the reader."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Science fiction authorsJews from PolandPhilosophers from PolandEssayists from PolandSatirists from Poland
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Philip José Farmer in The New York Times (2 September 1984)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Stanisław Lem
1921 – 2006
polnischer Schriftsteller
79 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Stanisław Lem →
Related Quotes
"Not only does God play dice with the world—He does not let us see what He has rolled."
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes."
"He is no parasite on anything, whose work is real: a mechanic, a doctor, a builder, a tailor, a dishwasher. What, in …"
"Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible."
"Not everything everywhere is for us."
"My past had disappeared. Not that I believed for a moment that this was an accident; in fact, I had suspected for som…"
"The only way to deal with technology is with another technology. Man knows more about his dangerous tendencies than h…"
"If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently."
"Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet…"
"Oh, I read good books, too, but only Earthside. Why that is, I don't really know. Never stopped to analyze it. Good b…"