A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
--Alvin Toffler
Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.
--Alvin Toffler
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
--Alvin Toffler
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
--Alvin Toffler
Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways.
--Alvin Toffler
Change is not merely necessary to life- it is life.
--Alvin Toffler
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
--Alvin Toffler
Despite the increasing complexity of the task, parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
--Alvin Toffler
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 be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
--Alvin Toffler
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
--Alvin Toffler
If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
--Alvin Toffler
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
--Alvin Toffler
It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
--Alvin Toffler
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
--Alvin Toffler
Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
--Alvin Toffler
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
--Alvin Toffler
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
--Alvin Toffler
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise- bureaucrats.
--Alvin Toffler
Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
--Alvin Toffler
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
--Alvin Toffler
Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it... to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
--Alvin Toffler
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
--Alvin Toffler
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
--Alvin Toffler
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
--Alvin Toffler
The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
--Alvin Toffler
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
--Alvin Toffler
The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.
--Alvin Toffler
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
--Alvin Toffler
The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
--Alvin Toffler
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
--Alvin Toffler
You cannot get a new economy without a new society.
--Alvin Toffler
You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
--Alvin Toffler
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