Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
ALVIN TOFFLERIt is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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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 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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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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 future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow.
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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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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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