“We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program!”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class—whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
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