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.

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

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

The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.