Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. — Alvin Toffler

Knowledge is knowing… or knowing where to find out. — Alvin Toffler

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge. — Alvin Toffler

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow’s worldwide struggle for power in every human institution. — Alvin Toffler

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

Never in history has distance meant less. — Alvin Toffler

A library is a hospital for the mind. — Anonymous

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. — Alvin Toffler

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock. — Alvin Toffler

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. — Alvin Toffler

Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances. — Alvin Toffler

The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world. — 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

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change … we are in collision with tomorrow. — 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

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success. — 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

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth. — Alvin Toffler

No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers. — Alvin Toffler

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

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

We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with ‘yet.’ — Alvin Toffler

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

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. — Alvin Toffler

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. — Chinese Proverb

Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. — Alvin Toffler

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

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies–images of potential tomorrows. — Alvin Toffler

The great growling engine of change–technology. — Alvin Toffler

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. — 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

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

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. — Alvin Toffler

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse. — Alvin Toffler

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. — Alvin Toffler

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. — Alvin Toffler

Idea–assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd. — Alvin Toffler

You cannot get a new economy without a new society. — Alvin Toffler