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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.

Alvin Toffler

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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Difficult Process Producers
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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Anarchy Come Interconnection Unrelated
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Firsts Survival Yesterday
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Chance Daring Sides Take
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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Breathing Change Perspective
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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Gay Law Pornography Rights
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
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
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
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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Again Civilization Good Skills Together
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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Experts People Vision

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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