Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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.
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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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