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.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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The 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 future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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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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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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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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