Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.

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

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

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

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

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

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.