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    The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

    Age | Daughter | Loss


    Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

    Technology | Potential | Side


    Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

    Parenting | Greatest | Single


    The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

    Science | Computers | Together


    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.

    Change | Time | Future


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

    Culture | Law | Spread


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

    Data | Judgment | Distrust


    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.

    Small | Direction


    Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

    Despise | Managers | Trained


    The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

    Education | Future | Learn


    One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

    Society | Ability | Sanity


    Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

    Technology | Possible | Itself


    Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

    Life | Change | Necessary


    Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

    Change | Future | Capacity


    Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

    Goes | Sausages | Profits


    Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

    Power | Knowledge | Democratic


    It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

    Caution | Daring | Err


    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.

    Business | Revolution | London


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

    Error | Correction | Editor


    I work virtually every waking hour.

    Work | Hour | Virtually


       

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