Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

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.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

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

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.