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

If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

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.

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

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.