Everything around him moved smoothly in the ancient routine that required no orders. "Give as few orders as… — Frank Herbert
Everything around him moved smoothly in the ancient routine that required no orders.
"Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him…once…long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject."
The Fremen knew this rule instinctively.
Source: Wikiquote · CC BY-SA 4.0
More from this book
The more I study the phenomenon of human creativity, the more mysterious it seems. Their whole process of innovation is elusive, but is critical for us to understand. If we fail in this endeavor, thinking machines are doomed.
The future, the past and the present are intertwined, a weave that forms any point in time.
Science, under the guise of benefiting mankind, is a dangerous force that often tampers with natural processes, without recognizing the consequences. Under such a scenario, mass destruction is inevitable.
