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Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler
American Author
Born: Oct 4, 1928
Died: Jun 27, 2016
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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. Alvin Toffler
Education Future Will Know Learn Read Does How Person Cannot Who Illiterate
People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice. Alvin Toffler
Future People Dilemma Out Absence May Victims Turn Choice Suffer
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. Alvin Toffler
Society Definition Definitions Tell Ability Unreal Soon New Real Sanity Need
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. Alvin Toffler
Future Time Change Stress Too Much Too Individuals Induce Shattering Shock Short Them Much
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. Alvin Toffler
Better Side Daring Caution Err Than
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. Alvin Toffler
Parenting Single Parenthood Remains Greatest Amateur Preserve
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. Alvin Toffler
Knowledge Power Most Democratic Source
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. Alvin Toffler
You Intelligence Judgment Own Distrust Data Quantitative Still Get Use Your
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. Alvin Toffler
Technology Increase Side Our Potential Hazards Also Powers Effects Technological
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. Alvin Toffler
Family Religion Old Nation Community Ways Anchor Ourselves Out Must Hurricane Impact Totally Shaking Thrust New New Ways Roots Profession Search Now
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. Alvin Toffler
Saying Business Somebody Revolution Think Broke London Some Entire Over New Like Economy Industrial Industrial Revolution Because Textile Manchester Manufacturers
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. Alvin Toffler
Together Science Organic About Computer Computers Major Come Like Genetics Talking Semiconductor Going Substances Next Explosion Function Biological
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. Alvin Toffler
Enough Correction Write Editor Error Provoked Anyone Doubtless Letter Deserves
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. Alvin Toffler
Future Man Change Limited Shock Overwhelmed Capacity Biological
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. Alvin Toffler
Despise Most Were Trained Managers Bureaucrats Thing
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace. Alvin Toffler
You Age Wife Sets Unlike Spent Machine Criticisms Industrial Understand Came Years Lines Intellectuals Five Pace Which Working Fully Many Assembly
No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers. Alvin Toffler
Television Deals Left Oracles Prediction Newspaper Serious
We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.' Alvin Toffler
Every Statement Follow Magic About Failed Forecast Button
The great growling engine of change - technology. Alvin Toffler
Great Technology Change Engine
I work virtually every waking hour. Alvin Toffler
Work Every Virtually Hour Waking
One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself. Alvin Toffler
Man Will Possibilities Able More Make Himself Fantastic Carbon Copies Biological

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