Alvin Toffler

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

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.

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

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

. . . in the world of the future, the new illiterate will be the person who has not learned how to learn.

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

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

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