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.
ALVIN TOFFLERIt is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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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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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 future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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