Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
ALVIN TOFFLERProfits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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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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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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