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.
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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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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