Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

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

Never in history has distance meant less.

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.