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

Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

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

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.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.