Alvin Toffler Quotes
"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Potential)
"Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them."
- Alvin Toffler
"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Power, Knowledge)
"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Parenthood)
"The great growling engine of change - technology."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Change, Technology)
"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Change, Future, Man)
"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
(Related: Future, Will)
"It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Caution)
"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
(Related: Change, Time, Future, Stress)
"Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Change, Life)
"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Correction, Error)
"Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Managers)
"The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Culture, Law)
"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
(Related: Computers, Genetics, Talking)
"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
(Related: Economy, Revolution, London, Saying)
"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
(Related: Intelligence, Distrust, Judgment)
"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."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Direction, Right)
"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Technology)