One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

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.

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

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.