Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLEROur moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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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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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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