Quote

If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

Alvin Toffler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alvin Toffler
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 4
Died: 2016
Died: June 27
Futures Studies
Futurist
Journalist
Pedagogue
Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
Writer
New York City
New York
Substitute
Substitutes
Production
Productions
Knowledge
Facts
Right

More quotes by Alvin Toffler

Image
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.
Alvin Toffler
Image
Learning is like rowing upstream not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb
Alvin Toffler
Image
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
Alvin Toffler
Image
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
Alvin Toffler
Image
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.
Alvin Toffler
Image
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
Alvin Toffler
Image
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
Alvin Toffler
Image
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.
Alvin Toffler
Image
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
Alvin Toffler
Image
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
Alvin Toffler
Image
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.
Alvin Toffler
Image
The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
Alvin Toffler
Image
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
Alvin Toffler
Image
I work virtually every waking hour.
Alvin Toffler
Image
Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
Alvin Toffler
Image
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler
Image
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
Alvin Toffler
Image
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffler
Image
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
Alvin Toffler
Image
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
Alvin Toffler