quotes by Alvin Toffler

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

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

"The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile."
— Alvin Toffler

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

"Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life."
— Alvin Toffler

"To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. 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. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources."
— Alvin Toffler (Future Shock)