"Man has a limited biological capacity for change.……" — Alvin Toffler
"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock."
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55 Quotes by Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler has 55 quotes on this site.
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Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them…
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In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of…
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The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
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If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not…
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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
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Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to…
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Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without…
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the…
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Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as…
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More Biological Quotes
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My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
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It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why…
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat…
— Tony Blair
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Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks…
— Madeleine Albright
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What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a…
— Octavia Butler
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only…
— Fred Allen
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Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues…
— Kim Cattrall
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
— George Steiner
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