Stanislaw Lem

• "Starożytni mawiali: 'mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur'. Świat łaknie oszustw, więc jest oszukiwany."
  • Translation: "The ancients used to say: mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur - the world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived."
  • Source: Okamgnienie, (A Blink of an Eye, 2000)
  • The phrase "Mundus Vult Decipi" was also used as a motto by the American satirist James Branch Cabell.

• "One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could build anything beginning with the letter 'n'."
  • The Cyberiad