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 TOFFLERFreedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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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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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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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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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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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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