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• Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
• Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into…
• In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized…
• The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
• If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the…
• It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
• Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task,…
• Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
• Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
• Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that…
• We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap…
• Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no…

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