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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous

Alvin Toffler

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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Science Talking Together
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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Criticism Wife Years
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
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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Change Communication Fire
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
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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Committed Jobs People Play Satisfaction
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Firsts Survival Yesterday
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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Cycles Faster Pace
Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Individual Information Suffering
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
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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Destiny Future Responsibility
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Challenges Civilization Criticism
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom

A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous

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