The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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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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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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