It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
ALVIN TOFFLEROne of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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 computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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