There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
ALVIN TOFFLEROne 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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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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