Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
ALVIN TOFFLERMan has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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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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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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Human 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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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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