One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Change is not merely necessary to life it is life.

Like adequate education, freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness

The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.

The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they – at some distant point...

Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

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.

South Korea is heavily dependent on exports and therefore accepts the general assumption that this trend will continue with no reversal.

Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as...

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

In Europe, countries like Finland, Sweden and Ireland are doing better than larger neighbors like Britain, France and Germany.

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.

The great growling engine of change – technology.

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.

In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show...

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.

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.

In describing today ‘ s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any to...

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn

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.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.

The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.

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.

The great growling engine of change — technology.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.