Quotes from 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.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

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.

A library is a hospital for the mind." - Anonymous

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

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study." - Chinese proverb

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Chinese proverb

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.

The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back." - Chinese proverb

4. Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

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.

Mereka yang disebut buta huruf (illiterate) di abad ke-21 bukanlah orang-orang yang tidak bisa membaca dan menulis, namun mereka yang tidak bisa belajar (learn), menanggalkan pelajaran sebelumnya (un-learn), dan belajar kembali (re-learn).

It does little good to forecast the future of semiconductors or energy, or the future of the family (even one's own family), if the forecast springs from the premise that everything else will remain unchanged. For nothing will remain unchanged. The future is fluid, not frozen. It is constructed by our shifting and changing daily decisions, and each event influences all others.

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

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.

A library is a hospital for the mind.

If just a tiny fraction of the sums spent on scientific and technological research and innovation were devoted to labs for designing and testing new organizational and institutional structures, we might have a much broader range of options to head off the looming implosion.

Rooting about in themselves for the source of their discomfort, they undergo agonies of unnecessary guilt. They seem blankly unaware that what they are feeling inside themselves is the subjective reflection of a much larger objective crisis: they are acting out an unwitting drama within a drama.

real revolutions replace institutions as well as technologies. And they do more: They break down and reorganize what social psychologists call the role structure of society.

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

One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.