 Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. |
| The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. |
| Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. |
| The great growling engine of change - technology. |
| To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. |
| Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. |
| You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. |
| Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. |
| The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. |
| It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. |
| Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. |
| Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life. |
| Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. |
| You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. |
| Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible. |
| The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. |
| One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. |
| Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. |
| Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. |
