Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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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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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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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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