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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
Alvin Toffler
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Alvin Toffler
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 4
Died: 2016
Died: June 27
Futures Studies
Futurist
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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.
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Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.
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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.
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The great growling engine of change - technology.
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