Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

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.

What you cannot control, you must accept.

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.