Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

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

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.