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

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

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.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

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

Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.