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Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept.

— Frank Herbert Heretics of Dune (1984)

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The thing we must do intensely is be human together. People are more important than things.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be.

Dune Genesis (1980)

No matter how finely you subdivide time and space, each tiny division contains infinity.

Dune Genesis (1980)

If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

Dune Messiah (1969)

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