Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLERFreedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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