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

Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.

We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

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.