Alvin Toffler citáty

„Negramotní 21. storočia nebudú tí, ktorí nebudú vedieť čítať a písať, ale tí, ktorí sa nebudú vedieť učiť.“

—  Alvin Toffler

„The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.“

—  Alvin Toffler

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

—  Alvin Toffler, kniha Future Shock

Future Shock (1970), Introduction

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

—  Alvin Toffler

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

- Chinese proverb“

—  Alvin Toffler

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

—  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

„A library is a hospital for the mind.”

- Anonymous“

—  Alvin Toffler

„Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.“

—  Alvin Toffler

„A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

- Chinese proverb“

—  Alvin Toffler

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

—  Alvin Toffler

Future Shock (1970), ch. 18
Zdroj: Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century

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

- Chinese proverb“

—  Alvin Toffler

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

—  Alvin Toffler

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

—  Alvin Toffler

1997 interview with John Perry Barlow, as reported on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/JPBarlow/status/104518695333789697

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

—  Alvin Toffler, kniha Future Shock

Future Shock (1970), ch. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=p1t2SOENHWYC&q=%22with+its+faster+pace+of+life+has+accelerated+the+family+cycle+super+industrialism+now+threatens+to+smash+it+altogether%22&pg=PA258#v=snippet

„…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

The Eco-Spasm Report (1975). Quoted in The Higher Taste, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1983, p. 13

„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, kniha Future Shock

Future Shock (1970), ch. 15