Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

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.

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

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against 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.