"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."

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"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."

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"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"The future and eternity are two entirely different things."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present."

Germany Kent, Roman Soldier

Future, Change, Thought, Mindset

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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"Don't waste our children's future on man's past."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Seeds you plant today determine the harvest you reap tomorrow."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing."

Reading

"I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection."

People

"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."

Public

"The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate."

Being

"People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers."

People

"In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God."

God

"Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything."

Fact

"I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear."

Time

"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."

Science

"To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example."

Work