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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Alvin Toffler
Technology
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
Direction
Right
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
Intelligence
Distrust
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.
Alvin Toffler
Economy
Revolution
London
Saying
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
Computers
Genetics
Talking
The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
Alvin Toffler
Culture
Law
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
Alvin Toffler
Managers
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffler
Correction
Error
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
Alvin Toffler
Change
Life
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
Change
Time
Future
Stress
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
Alvin Toffler
Caution
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
Future
Will
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffler
Change
Future
Man
The great growling engine of change - technology.
Alvin Toffler
Change
Technology
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler
Parenthood