Frank Herbert

The sequential nature of actual events is not illuminated with lengthy precision by the powers of prescience except under the most extraordinary circumstances. The oracle grasps incidents cut out of the historic chain. Eternity moves. It inflicts itself upon the oracle and the supplicant alike. Let Muad'dib's subjects doubt his majesty and his oracular visions. Let them deny his powers. Let them never doubt Eternity.

Was it defeat to choose a lesser evil?

Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

“To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.”

If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

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.

One can compare this new Jihad to a necessary editing process. We are disposing of the things that are destroying us as humans.

Where one person sees cause of rejoicing, another sees only reason for despair. Pray that you are the former.

Science: the creation of dilemmas by the solutions of mysteries.

For all their computerized precision, thinking machines can be confused in many different ways.