If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
ALVIN TOFFLERHuman beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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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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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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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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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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 technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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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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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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