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Alvin Toffler Quotes

American - Author | October 4, 1928 - June 27, 2016

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

Technology Potential Side Our Powers

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.

Education Future Learn Person Know

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.

Small Things Small Direction Think

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

Change Future Nobody Certainty Knows

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Intelligence Data You Judgment Own

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

Change Future Man Overwhelmed Shock

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 Future Time Stress Short

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.

Science Together Computers Talking

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

Society New Need Real Ability Tell

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Parenting Single Greatest Preserve

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 Religion Roots New

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.

Business Saying Revolution Think New

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