Wade

“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 ignorant approach of those who call themselves scientists and technologists.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“humans are seldom alerted to the shifting average through a great span of years.”
― Frank Patrick Herbert, Children of Dune

“It was a Temple that could be hauled away in the night by anyone with a two-inch ball on his car bumper,”
― Charles Portis, Masters of Atlantis

“The Lord in his wisdom gave money to very curious people, perhaps because they’d starve without.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden