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Future Quotes



"There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past."


"The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present."



"If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future."


"And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future."


"I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me."


"You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me."


"An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us."


"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."


"One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future."


"There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future."


"The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish."



"There is no future. This is the season. Get to the Super Bowl."


"We've had to set a workshop up; we've had to equip the workshop and everything else. But all that equipment is there now and whatever projects they want to use it for in the future."


"Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future."


"There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field."


"This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive."


"I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out."


"The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert."


"Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?"



"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind."


"For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future."


"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."


"A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization."


"My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results."


"Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks."


"The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore."


"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."


"That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here."


"I know no way of judging the future but by the past."


"Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down."


"Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief."


"If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind."
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