Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide.
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In describing today
—Alvin Toffler
Topics: Change
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
—Alvin Toffler
Topics: Learning
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
Topics: Stress
Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it … to channel our destiny in humane directions and to try to ease the trauma of transition.
—Alvin Toffler
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
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
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
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition
—Alvin Toffler
Topics: Sanity
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
—Alvin Toffler
Topics: Change
The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order
—Alvin Toffler
Topics: Future
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
—Alvin Toffler
Topics: Parents, Parenting
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise—bureaucrats.
—Alvin Toffler
Topics: Bureaucracy
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
—Alvin Toffler
Topics: Knowledge, Power
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
—Alvin Toffler
Topics: Change
Change is not merely necessary to life. It is life.
—Alvin Toffler
Topics: Change
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
—Alvin Toffler
Topics: Risk
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