Occupation: Writer Birth: October 4, 1928 Death: June 27, 2016
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial ag….
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor..
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 gener….
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock..
Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-return….
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46..
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success..
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 you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy..
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..
It is always easier to talk about change than to make it..
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it..
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. An….
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, w….
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur..
I work virtually every waking hour..
The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the….
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats..
Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we hav….
Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of….