What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-thereโs the real danger.
Frank HerbertThe person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.
Frank Herbertthe meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
Frank HerbertThe mind can go either direction under stressโtoward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.
Frank Herbert