Quotes by Alvin Toffler

• One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
• Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
• Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
• Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
• Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
• The great growling engine of change - technology.
• Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
• 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.
• It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
• 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.
• Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
• Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
• Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
• The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
• 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.
• 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.
• You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
• 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.
• Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
• Change is the process by which the future invades our present, releasing tidal waves of transformation in every aspect of our lives.