There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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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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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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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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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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