To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.

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

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.