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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. — Alvin Toffler

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution. — Alvin Toffler

Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head. — Alvin Toffler

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. — Alvin Toffler

Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor. — Alvin Toffler

I work virtually every waking hour. — Alvin Toffler

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. — Alvin Toffler

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46. — Alvin Toffler

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success. — Alvin Toffler

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does. — Alvin Toffler

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin Toffler

Profits, like sausages ... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. — Alvin Toffler

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. — Alvin Toffler

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness. — Alvin Toffler

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. — Alvin Toffler

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways — Alvin Toffler

A library is a hospital for the mind. - Anonymous — Alvin Toffler

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
- Chinese proverb — Alvin Toffler

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible. — Alvin Toffler

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge. — Alvin Toffler

4. Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. — Alvin Toffler

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order. — Alvin Toffler

If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether. — Alvin Toffler

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows. — Alvin Toffler

Never in history has distance meant less. — Alvin Toffler

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

You cannot get a new economy without a new society. — Alvin Toffler

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

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.
- Chinese proverb — Alvin Toffler

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. — Alvin Toffler

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. — Alvin Toffler

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock. — Alvin Toffler

Knowledge is knowing ... or knowing where to find out. — Alvin Toffler

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. - Alvin Toffler — David Allen

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. — Alvin Toffler

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. — Alvin Toffler

The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world. — Alvin Toffler

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. — Alvin Toffler

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. — Alvin Toffler

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb. — Alvin Toffler

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. — Alvin Toffler

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. — Alvin Toffler

The great growling engine of change - technology. — Alvin Toffler

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life. — Alvin Toffler

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. — Alvin Toffler

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again. — Alvin Toffler

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it ... to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. — Alvin Toffler

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. — Alvin Toffler

Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances. — Alvin Toffler

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it. — Alvin Toffler