Alvin Toffler Quotes

Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then why have any Facebook friends at all? We're back where we started. The ultimate complexity is just another entropy.

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

We are continuously bombarded with information, appeals, deadlines, communications... We are continually being squeezed or projected into the future as our present moments are assaulted and consumed in the fires of endless urgency.

One cannot say everything at once.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

The world is too full of information.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke.

There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.

Mobile is the future, and there's no such thing as communication overload.

You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.

The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.

Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

In the final analysis, change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here.