Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

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.

Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.

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

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.