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

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.

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

4. Ditties of Life – 4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity, When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222] – 4

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!

Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?

There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.

Knaves will come and knaves will go.

I always used to tell my players that we are here to win! And you know what, Al? When you don't win, you lose.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.