Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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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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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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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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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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