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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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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
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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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.
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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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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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