Alvin Toffler Quotes

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, Person

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

Change, Time, Future

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

Small, Big, While

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
Alvin Toffler

Side, Daring, Caution

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
Alvin Toffler

Life, Change, Necessary

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

Distrust, Judgment, Data

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin Toffler

Power, Knowledge, Democratic

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler

Society, Real, Tell

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
Alvin Toffler

Goes, Profits, Esteemed

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Alvin Toffler

Technology, Side, Potential

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler

Parenting, Greatest, Single

I work virtually every waking hour.
Alvin Toffler

Work, Hour, Waking

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffler

Enough, Write, Anyone

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffler

Change, Future, Capacity

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

Age, Wife, Understand

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Alvin Toffler

Technology, Makes, Possible

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
Alvin Toffler

Law, Culture, Jam

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
Alvin Toffler

Despise, Managers, Trained

The great growling engine of change - technology.
Alvin Toffler

Change, Great, Technology

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
Alvin Toffler

Age, Loss, Tragedy

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

Science, Computers, Together

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

Business, Saying, Revolution

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 4, 1928

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