I work virtually every waking hour.

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

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.

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

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

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

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 us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.