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.

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

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

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

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.

The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.