Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

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

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

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.

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."