My lungs taste the air of Time, Blown past falling sands… - Frank Herbert

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?

The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This has often been the approach of those who call themselves scientists and technologists.