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

Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.