Second Wave Quotes by Alvin Toffler

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” - Chinese proverb”

— Alvin Toffler

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

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

— Alvin Toffler

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

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

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

— Alvin Toffler

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

Never in history has distance meant less.

— Alvin Toffler

“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” - Chinese proverb”

— Alvin Toffler

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

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

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

— Alvin Toffler