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
reeds young peril
The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.
precision repeats monotonous
Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?
survival important ability-to-change
The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.
dream sleep wish
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
technology people risk
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
rulers
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
path mediocrity caution
Caution is the path to mediocrity.
funny-love giving joy
You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.
initiative
Beaurocracy destroys initiative.
genius madness method
Madness in method, that's genius
accepting
What you cannot control, you must accept.
killers rabbits kind
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
well-known wells known
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
schemes persons humans
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.