Alvin Toffler citations

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

- Chinese proverb”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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”

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

“Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.”

- Chinese proverb”

“4. Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”

“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.”

“…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.”

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