Alvin Toffler Men Quotations

Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

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

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

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

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction—how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.