"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
-From "Dune" by Frank Herbert

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"Someday soon we'll stop to ponder what on Earth's this spell we're under
We made the grade and still we wonder who the hell we are."
-Styx "Grand Illusion"