It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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