Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
ALVIN TOFFLERYou can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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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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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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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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The 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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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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