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.
ALVIN TOFFLERInformation overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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