Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

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

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

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 great growling engine of change - technology.

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.

The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.