By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

Never in history has distance meant less.

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

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

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.