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

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

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.

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.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

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

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.

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

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

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 knowing... or knowing where to find out.

Men know life too early women know life too late.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Things just always seem to lead to the logical next step.

It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

A guru is not a crutch, he is a bridge.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.