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.

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

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

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

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

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.