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

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

Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

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.