{"author":"Alvin Toffler","author_id":"Alvin+Toffler","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.","author":"Alvin Toffler","tags":["greatest","single","preserve "],"id":11171,"author_id":"Alvin+Toffler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alvin Toffler","tags":["inspirational","strategy"],"id":39832,"author_id":"Alvin+Toffler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alvin Toffler","tags":["revolution","think","saying "],"id":54172,"author_id":"Alvin+Toffler"},{"text":"Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching force for the creation of the habit of anticipation. Our children should be studying Arthur C. Clarke, William Tenn, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Robert Sheckley, not because these writers can tell them about rocket ships and time machines but, more important, because they can lead young minds through an imaginative exploration of the jungle of political, social, psychological, and ethical issues that will confront these children as adults.","author":"Alvin Toffler","tags":["science-fiction"],"id":112984,"author_id":"Alvin+Toffler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alvin Toffler","tags":["time","future","stress "],"id":116881,"author_id":"Alvin+Toffler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alvin Toffler","tags":["future","learn","know "],"id":117177,"author_id":"Alvin+Toffler"},{"text":"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.","author":"Alvin Toffler","tags":["possible","itself","feeds "],"id":175755,"author_id":"Alvin+Toffler"},{"text":"Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.","author":"Alvin Toffler","tags":["change","necessary","merely "],"id":192230,"author_id":"Alvin+Toffler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alvin Toffler","tags":["time"],"id":203500,"author_id":"Alvin+Toffler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alvin Toffler","tags":["social-change","society","young-people","youth"],"id":229556,"author_id":"Alvin+Toffler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}