Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

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

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.