Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

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.

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

Never in history has distance meant less.

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

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.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.