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

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

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.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

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

Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.