Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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.
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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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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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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 next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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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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