Words matter. These are the best Alvin Toffler Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I work virtually every waking hour.
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.
One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.
One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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.
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.
We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with ‘yet.’
The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
The great growling engine of change – technology.
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.
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.
Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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.
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.
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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.
I work virtually every waking hour.
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.