Quotes from Alvin Toffler

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

Never in history has distance meant less.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

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

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

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.

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.

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.

Future shock… the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

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.

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

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.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.

Ultimately, overcoming personal censorship is about gaining independence--independence from ignorance!~ Adesiji Rabiu

You might have developed capacities to lead yourself effectively, and developed the competencies in adapting to change and making effective decisions, but leading and influencing others can be a totally different experience.…the led reserves the right of followership! …the decision to follow you or not is theirs!~Adesiji Rabiu