You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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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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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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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The 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.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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 you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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