There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
ALVIN TOFFLERThere are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
ALVIN TOFFLERPopular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
ALVIN TOFFLERHumanity 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERA library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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.
ALVIN TOFFLERTo 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERA new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
ALVIN TOFFLERMy 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERParenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERFreedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
ALVIN TOFFLERHuman 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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