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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

Alvin Toffler

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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Committed Jobs People Play Satisfaction
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
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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Cycles Faster Pace
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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Science Talking Together
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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Difficult Process Producers
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
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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Change Communication Fire
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
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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Cutting Kings Knights
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Ecommerce Strategy Technology
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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Experts People Vision
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
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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Criticism Wife Years

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

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