The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
ALVIN TOFFLEROne of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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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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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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