As I've said many times, the future is already here. It's just not very
evenly distributed.
-William Gibson
Forget the past- the future will give you plenty to worry about.
-George
Allen
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important
to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
-Isaac
Asimov
I am an optimist; anyone interested in the future has to be, otherwise
he would simply shoot himself.
-Arthur C. Clarke
I believe the children are like our future: nasty, brutish and short.
(From The Onion)
-Unattributed
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another
gate.
-Arthur Wing Pinero
I have seen the future. It needs work.
-Robert Littell
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-Albert Einstein
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent
less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her
sweetness and respecting her seniority.
-E.B. White
I'm a peripheral visionary. I can see into the future, but only off to
the side.
-Steven Wright
I'm optimistic about the future, but not about the future of this
civilization. I'm optimistic about the civilization which will replace
this one.
-James Baldwin
Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other
over rival interpretations of Star Wars... Could anything-
anything- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous
that the world we are living in.
-Sam Harris
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future.
The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no
longer exists.
-Eric Hoffer
In the future, more people will work for themselves, creating a huge
market for bizarre products.
-Scott Adams
In the future, most democratic countries will be led by tall people with
good hair.
-Scott Adams
In the future, the most important job skill will be a lack of ethics.
-Scott
Adams
It's not the future that scares me... it's what will happen tomorrow.
-Frank
Romano
My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich
get richer, the poor get poorer... and there are flying cars.
-Joss
Whedon
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than
not, it tries to prevent the future.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is
longing to go back to.
-Ashleigh Brilliant
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
-Dean
Acheson
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
-Alan Kay
The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed.
-Scott
Adams
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from
the terrors of the future.
-Frank Herbert
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the
future is that men may become robots.
-Erich Fromm
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-Winston
Churchill
The enemies of the Future are always the very nicest people.
-Christopher
Morley
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog.
The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the
man from touching the equipment.
-Warren Bennis
The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.
-Alvin Toffler
The future depends on assumptions and assumptions are just stuff you
make up. No sense in knocking yourself out.
-Scott Adams
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
-George F. Will
The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.
-James
Cameron
The future is the past returning through another gate.
-Arnold H.
Glasow
The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own
society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying
exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up
in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have
to show up in the mirror.
-Bruce Sterling
The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it
isn't.
-George F. Will
The future will be better tomorrow.
-Dan Quayle
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past,
only far more expensive.
-John Sladek
The past can only be known, not changed. The future can only be changed,
not known.
-Steward Brand
The past is gone; the present is confusing; and the future scares the
hell out of me.
-David L. Stein
The trouble with our times is the future is not what it used to be.
-Paul
Valery
The written word will soon disappear and we'll no longer be able to read
good prose like we used to could. This prospect does not gentle my
thoughts or tranquil me toward the future.
-James Thurber
There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over
again, now.
-Eugene O'Neill
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future,
which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
-Arthur C.
Clarke
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who
let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what
happened.
-John M. Richardson, Jr.
When you think all is lost, the future remains.
-Robert Goddard
Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.
-Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry
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