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All Quotes by author - Alvin Toffler
" Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. "
Editor
Enough
Correction
" Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life. "
Change
Life
Necessary
" 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. "
Stress
Time
Too
" It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. "
Than
Better
Caution
" I work virtually every waking hour. "
Every
Virtually
Hour
" Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. "
Power
Most
Knowledge
" Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. "
Future
Overwhelmed
Shock
" Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. "
Most
Despise
Bureaucrats
" 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. "
You
Age
Working
" Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change. "
Change
Future
Knows
" One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. "
Need
Ability
New
" One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself. "
Man
More
Carbon
" Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. "
Potential
Technology
Technological
" Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. "
Greatest
Parenting
Preserve
" 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. "
People
Choice
Future
" Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. "
Most
Goes
Know
" Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible. "
Feeds
Technology
Possible
" The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46. "
Tragedy
Daughter
Age
" The great growling engine of change - technology. "
Engine
Change
Technology
" 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. "
Person
Know
Learn
" The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. "
Culture
Thinner
Spread
" 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. "
Talking
Computers
Science
" 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. "
Think
Revolution
Saying
" 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. "
Family
Community
Now
" You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. "
Own
You
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. "
Think
Small Things
Direction
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