Alvin Toffler

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

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.

— Alvin Toffler

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

— Alvin Toffler

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

— Alvin Toffler

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

— Alvin Toffler

Man remains in the end what he started as in the beginning: a biosystem with a limited capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the consequence is future shock.

— Alvin Toffler

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

— Alvin Toffler

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

— Alvin Toffler

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.

— Alvin Toffler

…the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole.

— Alvin Toffler

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.

— Alvin Toffler

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

— Alvin Toffler

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.

— Alvin Toffler

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

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

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

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 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 is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

— Alvin Toffler

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

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

The great growling engine of change - technology.

— Alvin Toffler

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

— Alvin Toffler