"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects……" — Alvin Toffler
"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."
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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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We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on…
— Pearl Bailey
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I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects…
— Christian Bale
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The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little…
— Catherine Bell
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Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
— Ben Bernanke
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I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects,…
— Bono
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable…
— Warren Buffett
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the…
— Pearl S. Buck
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What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film,…
— Steve Buscemi
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Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.
— Tony Campolo
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
— Nick Cave
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I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
— Jackie Chan
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