“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Mendel hated motorists. Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.”
― Call for the Dead
― Call for the Dead
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Questions arose. Like, what in the fuck was going on here, basically.”
― Inherent Vice
― Inherent Vice
“In the early ’60’s a Yoyodyne executive living near L.A. and located someplace in the corporate root-system above supervisor but below vice-president, found himself, at age 39, automated out of a job. Having been since age 7 rigidly instructed in an eschatology that pointed nowhere but to a presidency and death, trained to do absolutely nothing but sign his name to specialized memoranda he could not begin to understand and to take blame for the running-amok of specialized programs that failed for specialized reasons he had to have explained to him, the executive’s first thoughts were naturally of suicide. But previous training got the better of him: he could not make the decision without first hearing the ideas of a committee.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
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