When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

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.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.