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Futurist Inspirational Quotes (545)

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Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.
Alvin Toffler
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous
Alvin Toffler
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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.
Alvin Toffler
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I work virtually every waking hour.
Alvin Toffler
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Alvin Toffler
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
Alvin Toffler
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin Toffler
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
Alvin Toffler
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler
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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
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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
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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
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We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable
Wayne Visser
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You will learn more about the people you work with in three minutes by asking them what they do for nothing, than by working with them for three years in the same team
Patrick Dixon
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The larger the corporation, the greater the risk that you are flying blind.
Patrick Dixon
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I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.
Michio Kaku
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We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.
Jacque Fresco
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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil
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Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity.
Jacque Fresco
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Make a list. Score your dates. Market yourself wisely. Find your needle.
Amy Webb
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Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.
Stanislaw Lem
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It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.
Jacque Fresco
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To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.
Michio Kaku
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