Famous Quotes by 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.”

You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.

The great growling engine of change – technology.

A revolution is not just a change in government, but a change in how people think.

What we are seeing now is the rise of the third wave of human civilization.

The new information technology, indifferent to human consequences, is the chief driving force of globalization.

A society that is too technologically advanced can forget its human roots.

The first rule of the future is: there are no rules.

The future belongs to those who can keep pace with change.

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

In the world of the future, it is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

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

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.

The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.

Technology is the weapon of the future.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought – that is being educated.

We will be forced to undergo a process of transformation that will affect our lives more profoundly than we can imagine.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

We can’t just sit around waiting for the future to come to us.