Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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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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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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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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