Author Profile
Alvin Toffler
1928 – 2016 • American • Author
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Showing 28 quotesThe biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.— Alvin Toffler
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.— 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
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
We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'— Alvin Toffler
No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.— Alvin Toffler
One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.— Alvin Toffler
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.— Alvin Toffler
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.— 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
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.— Alvin Toffler
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Technology
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
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Religion
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
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Intelligence