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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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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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