Alvin Toffler Quotes
24 Alvin Toffler quotes:
"You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people."
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"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."
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"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
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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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"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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"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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"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock."
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"It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution."
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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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"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."
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"The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn."
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"Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats."
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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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"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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"The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets."
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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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"Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them."
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"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
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"The great growling engine of change - technology."
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"Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life."
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