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.

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

Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

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

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

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.