The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies