Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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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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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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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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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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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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