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 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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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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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Humanity 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.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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To 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.
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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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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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