I work virtually every waking hour.

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.

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.

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

Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.