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Learning is like rowing upstream not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb
Alvin Toffler
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Alvin Toffler
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 4
Died: 2016
Died: June 27
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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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If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
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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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The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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