Quotes by
Alvin Toffler |
1928-2016 , American writer & futurist
American writer who is regarded as one of the world's outstanding futurists. His books Future Shock (1970) and The Third Wave (1980) became international best-sellers. He foresaw several technological advances. | 14 quotes | 548 visits |
Quotations
| • | The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. 3 |
| • | If you don't have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy. 1 |
| • | 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. 1 |
| • | Never in history has distance meant less. 1 |
| • | 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. |
| • | The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. |
| • | Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways |
| • | Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor. |
| • | One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again. |
| • | The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. |
| • | Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. |
| • | The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. |
