"The life of the Prominent individuals within a generation cannot stand apart from the generation itself. If they are the fish, the gene-pool is the liquid in which they swim. The generational sensitivity they share is far more significant than the things that separate them."

"This is not going to be a volume of memoirs about my own life. Therefore I am not going to recount the truly amusing details of my arrest, which was like no other. That night the SMERSH officers gave up their last hope of being able to make out where we were on the map - they had never been able to read maps anyway. So they politely handed the map to me and asked me to tell the driver how to proceed to Central Intelligence at army headquarters. I, therefore, led them and myself to that prison, and in gratitude they immediately put me not in an ordinary cell but, in a punishment cell."

"We, got the greatest system in the world; we've just got to find a way to make it work."

"(The emergence of Information Society) ...is the central event -- the key to understanding the years immediately ahead. It is an event as profound as that First Ware of unchanged unleashed ten thousand years ago by the invention of agriculture, or the earthshaking Second Wave of change touched off by the Industrial Revolution. We are children of the next transformation, the Third Wave."