- Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. – Alvin Toffler
- 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. – Alvin Toffler
- The great growling engine of change – technology. – 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
- Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible. – Alvin Toffler
- To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. – Alvin Toffler
- Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. – 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
- The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. – Alvin Toffler
- Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. – Alvin Toffler