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

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.

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

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."

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.