The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

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.

It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.