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A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

Alvin Toffler

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Alvin Toffler
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 4
Died: 2016
Died: June 27
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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.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
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Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.
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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.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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.
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I work virtually every waking hour.
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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
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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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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.
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