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

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

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."

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.