Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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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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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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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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