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

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

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

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

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.