Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr.was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 October 1920
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
fighting men thinking
When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.
storm gone
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
real thinking numbers
What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.
attitude princess knives
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan
bees enough
The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
criticism looks use
Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"
important problem
The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.
reeds young peril
The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.
inspirational business moving
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
home understanding revolution
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
enemy stronger allies
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
doors long violence
Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.
children needs about-yourself
What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?
precision repeats monotonous
Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?