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. - Frank Herbert

You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war.

To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement of dawn striking across a broken horizon.

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?