Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.

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

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

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

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