Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Alvin Toffler

1. "Change is not merely necessary to life. It is life."
2. "Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."
3. “Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.”
4. ”One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.”
5. “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.”
6. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
7. ”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.”
8. "To survive,
to avert what we have termed
future shock,
the individual must become
infinitely more adaptable
and capable than ever before."
9. “You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.”