Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

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.

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

I work virtually every waking hour.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.