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.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

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

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.