Perfection is destructive

There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of a creosote bush or the pattern of it's leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see the peril in finding the ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains it's own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.

-The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
(From Dune by Frank Herbert)