115 Quotes by Alvin Toffler

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

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

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.

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

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.