Kolmogorov tried to climb mountains, Gelfand built roads

I saw this:

(Gelfand's prophecy:) Sporadic simple groups are not groups, they are objects from a still unknown infinite family, some number of which happened to be groups, just by chance.

...first here: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/09/mathematical_kin...

It's stayed with me ever since.