The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

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

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

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