Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
ALVIN TOFFLERProfits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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