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Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler

American writer, futurist, and businessman

Lived from: 1928 - 2016

Category: History and sociology Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 4 october 1928 Died: 27 june 2016

  • But if this makes the financial system more flexible and helps it overcome localized crises, it also raises the ante, escalating the risk of massive collapse.
  • 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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  • Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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  • But if this makes the financial system more flexible and helps it overcome localized crises, it also raises the ante, escalating the risk of massive collapse.
    Power Shift (1990)
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  • Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
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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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  • It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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  • It is ironic that the people who complain most loudly that people cannot relate to one another, or cannot communicate are often the very sample people who urge grater individuality.
    Future Shock (1970)
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  • Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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  • Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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  • Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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  • One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
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  • Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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  • Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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  • Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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  • Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
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  • The great growling engine of change - technology.
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  • The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.
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  • The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
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  • The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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  • To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
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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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What are the most famous quotes from Alvin Toffler?

The two most famous quotes from Alvin Toffler are:

  • "Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it."
  • "But if this makes the financial system more flexible and helps it overcome localized crises, it also raises the ante, escalating the risk of massive collapse."

When did Alvin Toffler live?

Alvin Toffler was born in 1928 and died in the year 2016.