Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.

The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors.

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

Chaos happens. Let's make better use of it.

One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right thing, and with in two hours find something to feel guilty about.

As the old saying goes, for somebody as famous as you, you don't need any introduction.

I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly be produced in factories through synthetic processes, cell cultures, and so on.

I need someone like me.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

Doors to beautiful things do not remain open forever. Be fast to enter inside!

Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.