The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

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

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

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.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.