Alvin Toffler quotes

Alvin Toffler was an American writer, futurist, and social theorist, renowned for his works on the digital revolution and societal change. His groundbreaking books such as "Future Shock" and "The Third Wave" explored how technology transforms society, economics, and culture. He influenced global discussions on the future by highlighting the challenges of rapid change and adaptation. Here are 37 of his quotes:

4. Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Alvin Toffler

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

Alvin Toffler

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

Alvin Toffler

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

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

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

Alvin Toffler

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous.

Alvin Toffler

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

Alvin Toffler

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

Alvin Toffler

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

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

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

Alvin Toffler

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

Alvin Toffler

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb.

Alvin Toffler

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Alvin Toffler

I work virtually every waking hour.

Alvin Toffler

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

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

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

Alvin Toffler

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

Alvin Toffler

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” - Chinese proverb.

Alvin Toffler

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