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.
ALVIN TOFFLERProfits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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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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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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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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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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