Best Quotes by Alvin Toffler (Top 10)
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
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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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The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.
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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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Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
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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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If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
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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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To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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