Alvin Toffler quotes

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

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

The great growling engine of change, technology.

Alvin Toffler

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.

Alvin Toffler

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

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

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

In the world of the future, the new illiterate will be the person who has not learned how to learn.

Alvin Toffler

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Alvin Toffler

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffler

We are creating every day our own horrid future. We shall have to do something about our environmental conditions. They are stifling us. Soon they will strangle us all.

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

The Law of Raspberry Jam: The wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Alvin Toffler