Alvin Toffler Quotes

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• Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
• Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The…
• In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters…
• The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
• If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall…
• It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
• 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 job.…
• Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
• Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
• Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth…
• We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between…
• Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.
• The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
• Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
• The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons…
• By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources…
• There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
• The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
• Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional.…
• The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

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