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

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.

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

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