American - Author | October 4, 1928 - June 27, 2016
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.
Alvin Toffler
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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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.
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No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.
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The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
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The great growling engine of change - technology.
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