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I work virtually every waking hour.
Never in history has distance meant less.
The great growling engine of change - technology.
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous
You cannot get a new economy without a new society.
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.
Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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.
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.
Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.