29 Quotes by Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler was an American writer and futurist who is best known for his book “Future Shock,” which predicted many of the social and technological changes that have come to define our world today. His writing and speaking engagements were characterized by his insightful analysis of emerging trends and his commitment to helping individuals and organizations adapt to change. Toffler’s legacy is one of foresight and innovation, and his work has had a profound impact on the way we think about the future and our place in it. (Bio)
Alvin Toffler Quotes
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. (Meaning)
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.
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.
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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.
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
Knowledge is knowing… or knowing where to find out.
It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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.
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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.
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
You cannot get a new economy without a new society.
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
If you don’t have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. (Meaning)
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” – Chinese proverb
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow’s worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.
Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
― Alvin Toffler Quotes
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