Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."

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

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.

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