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

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

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

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.