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

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

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

Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

I work virtually every waking hour.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

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

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

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

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

A library is a hospital for the mind. - Anonymous

If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

4. Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
- Chinese proverb

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

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

Never in history has distance meant less.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

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

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

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

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

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.

The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

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

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

Profits, like sausages ... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

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.

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it ... to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

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