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Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.

FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes, attributed in Dune: House of Atreides

Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.

FRANK HERBERT, Dune

Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

FRANK HERBERT, Dune

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking -- there's the real danger.

FRANK HERBERT, God Emperor of Dune

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny.... They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.

FRANK HERBERT, Dune Messiah

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

FRANK HERBERT, Dune

You fight when the necessity arises -- no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

FRANK HERBERT, Dune

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune


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