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

I work virtually every waking hour.

The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.

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.

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

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

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.