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

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.

Our anger could become a force of deliverance.

Life is a daring curiosity.

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.

I wish you way more than luck.

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.

Every savage can dance.

I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

The most challenging scene for me was the spider scene, because I don't like spiders in real life. Even rubber ones I get really scared of.