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.
ALVIN TOFFLERProfits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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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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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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