The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

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.

The light of love is a flaming fire.

I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.

He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

I have been around conservatives my entire life. I have never met a single human being, in any place, who wanted to ban contraceptives.