You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

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.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

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

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.