Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

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.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.