“ 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
“ Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. Alvin Toffler
“ 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. Alvin Toffler
“ Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. 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
“ One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. Alvin Toffler
“ 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. Alvin Toffler
“ Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change. Alvin Toffler
“ The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in t… 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 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
“ My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that… Alvin Toffler
“ We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. Alvin Toffler
“ Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, scie… Alvin Toffler
