Stanislaw LEM. The Voice Of The Lord (№ 303005)

And why is prohibited without a license to drive on the roads, but people, completely devoid of integrity, knowledge, I do not say, - allowed to print their works freely and in any quantity? Inflation of the printed word is partly caused by the exponential increase in the number of writers but publishing policies, too. The childhood of our civilization was a time when to read and write only those truly educated people. This criterion remained in force and after the invention of printing; and although the works of fools sometimes were published (nothing), their numbers have not been astronomical - not that now. In the spill of waste paper drowning is really valuable publication: it is easier to find one good book among ten worthless than a thousand among a million.