The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.