We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

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.

To find your way you must first take the steps

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.

The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.

I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you.

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.