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

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

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

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.