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.

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.

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

I work virtually every waking hour.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.