Quotes by Alvin Toffler

About Alvin Toffler:

Alvin Toffler is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communication revolution and technological singularity.
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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, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching...

Alvin Toffler

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

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 sets the pace.

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

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

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

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The great growling engine of change - technology.

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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

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

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

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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Alvin Toffler

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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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Alvin Toffler

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler

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

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

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAlvin Toffler
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornOctober 4, 1928
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFuturist; Journalist; Writer; Educationist