Alvin Toffler

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

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.

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

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

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

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

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.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

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.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

The great growling engine of change - technology.