Alvin Toffler is a famous Author from USA, he/she is 96 years old and still alive, born October 4, 1928.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac libra, who is known for Balance, Justice, Truth, Beauty, Perfection.
Our collection contains 19 quotes who is written / told by Alvin, under the main topics: Education - Technology - Power - Science - Society.
19 Famous quotes by Alvin Toffler
"The great growling engine of change - technology"
"The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets"
"Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them"
"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock"
"It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution"
"Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life"
"Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats"
"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"
"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment"
"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"
"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it"
"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible"
"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur"
"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"
"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate"
"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power"
"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"
"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition"
"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"
