Quotes from Alvin Toffler

If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.

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.

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

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

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.

Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

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.

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.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

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

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

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

We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'

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.

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

I work virtually every waking hour.

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

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

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

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.

Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.