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

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

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.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

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