The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

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.

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.

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