Occupation: Writer Birth: October 4, 1928 Death: June 27, 2016
The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the….
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Hu….
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows..
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..
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy..
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success..
It is always easier to talk about change than to make it..
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn..
A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous.
Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotiona….
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them..
The great growling engine of change - technology..
If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does..
Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future..
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substance….
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life..
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock..
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of his….
Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations.….
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order..
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must sea….