Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow.
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In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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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.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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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.
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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.
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