Each of us influences the actions of the people we know. —XAVIER HARKONNEN,
Your outrageous and reckless chaos is the only reason you are able to beat me in any strategy game, Seurat said. It certainly has nothing to do with your innate skills.
Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.
The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.
The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay jus...
Human imagination is a powerful thing. It can be a sanctuary from difficult times, a catalyst to change society, or the impetus to create marvelous works of art. On the other hand, an overabundance of...
Dhartha’s deep blue eyes flashed. This is not about pride, Aurelius Venport. This is only about killing a pest of the desert.
Despite an appearance of infallibility, computer projections are not prescient. —TICIA CENVA, former leader of the Sorceresses of Rossak
We could be dreaming all the time, but we do not perceive those dreams while we are awake because consciousness (like the sun obscuring stars during the day) is much too brilliant to allow the unconsc...
We are indeed miserable, my friends, but we don’t have to be dismal about it.
She suspected that Iblis Ginjo was a dangerous, duplicitous man, but saw no one more qualified to take the Jihad where it needed to go. For his own reasons, he did, after all, espouse the same cause a...
Seurat’s flowmetal face gleamed in the lights from his update ship’s cockpit. Then I regret having been such an excellent teacher.
No matter the challenge, his people knew how to endure.
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.
If we give up our humanity to fight the machines, Zufa, then Omnius has already won!
I have seen into the heart of the universe.
Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risks is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. —Planetologist Pardot Kynes, An Arrakis Primer, written for his son L...
But this … creature was none of those things. He was barely distinguishable from an animal. The young man—singlehandedly—seemed intent on increasing the universe’s entropy by an order of magnitude.
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
A human captive had fought the machines! She had destroyed a robot with her own hands! Amazed, they called out her name.