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• When you jump for joy, beware that no-one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
  -- Stanislaw Lem, "Unkempt Though...
• Think before you think! -- Stanislaw Lem
• Don't shout for help at night. You might wake your neighbors.
  -- Stanislaw J. Lem, "Unkempt Though...
• The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet. -- Lao-Tzu
• When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today
  and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, you could easily count them from left to right, or top to bottom, and the larger and bluer ones were set apart, and the smaller yellowing types pushed off to the corners as bodies of a lower grade....
• Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!
  -- Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad...
• Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!
  -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad...