Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

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

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

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.