You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

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

The great growling engine of change - technology.

The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.

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