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Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

Alvin Toffler

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Alvin Toffler
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 4
Died: 2016
Died: June 27
Futures Studies
Futurist
Journalist
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Sociologist
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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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.
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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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.
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The great growling engine of change - technology.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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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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The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
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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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