If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” - Chinese proverb” — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations.… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” - Chinese proverb” — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
