Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?
"The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age". Book by StanisÅ‚aw Lem, translated by Michael Kandel. "Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius", §4, 1974.