Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLERA library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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