1. “The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.”
2. “We are moving swiftly into the era of the temporary product, made by temporary methods, to serve temporary needs.”
3. “The future always comes too fast and in wrong order.”
4. “You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all small things go in the right direction.”
5. “Nobody know the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.”
6. “Future shock is a shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.”
7. “One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.”
8. “Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”
9. “Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of amateur.”
10. “Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.”
11. “You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgement.”
12. “The greatest growling engine of change – technology.”
13. “If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.”
14. “Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.”
15. “A library is a hospital for the mind.”
16. “You cannot get a new economy without a new society.”
17. “Change is a process by which the future invades our lives.”
18. “Knowledge is knowing… or knowing where to find out.”
19. “It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.”
20. “It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.”
21. “Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelme, the capacity is i future shock.”
22. “We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.”
23. “By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.”
24. “Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.”
25. “Never in history has distance meant less.”
26. “Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.”
27. “The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow’s worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.”
28. “The next ajor explosion is going to be hen genetics and computers come together.”
29. “Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.”
30. “There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.”
