Alvin Toffler Quotes
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.
If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production
In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.