Our civilization appears to’ve fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without the old ways cropping up.
Frank HerbertTags: war
She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.
Frank HerbertTags: probability randomness
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
Frank HerbertYou do not beg the sun for mercy.
-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary
There’s a Bene Gesserit saying,” she said. “You have sayings for everything!” he protested. “You’ll like this one,” she said. “It goes: ‘Do not count a human dead until you’ve seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.
Frank HerbertTags: bene-gesserit-axiom
It is not always the majestic concerns of Imperial ministers which dictate the course of history, nor is it necessarily the pontifications of priests which move the hands of God.
Frank HerbertAny conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of their importance
Frank HerbertI'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me
Frank HerbertTags: training
I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
Frank HerbertTags: profound science-fiction interesting
A sing-song of shouts filled the air as the merchants tried to attract buyers. Their voices had that end of the workday lift - a false brilliance composed of the hope that old dreams would be fulfilled, yet coloured by the knowledge that life would not change for them.
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