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

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.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

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

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.

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous