Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave… - Frank Herbert

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.

Surely you know bureaucracies always become voracious aristocracies after they attain commanding power.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis,” his father said. “You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.