It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

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.

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.