Orson Scott Card Quotes

“Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.”

“In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)”

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

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

“Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.”

“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 is not merely necessary to life - it is life.”

“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.”

“The great growling engine of change - technology.”

“Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.”