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Future Quotes


"To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed."


"As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined."


"We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction "If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.""


"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."


"If somebody asks you where you are going, tell him you are going to everywhere, because future is a path going to everywhere!"


"Yes, the future certainly looks brighter now. I'm very happy with my group."


"We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!"


"The future is the worst thing about the present."


"General..behold the future of weaponry.""What the hell I am seeing here, Colonel?""It's..technologart of ancient weaponry, Sir!""It's..what?"


"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true."


"Having a finite life in an infinite universe means nothing; having an infinite life in a finite universe means nothing; having an infinite life in an infinite universe, now, that means something!"


"What marvel things are waiting for us in the future? What horrible things are waiting for us? Whatever is waiting for us, we always want to be in the future, ready to celebrate and ready to fight!"


"I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side."


"Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!"


"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."


"The future influences the present just as much as the past."


"No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction."


"Well, maybe I just want to know the future so I can prepare myself for what's coming. If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise, said the seer. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur."


"When you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope."


"Changes occur and expectations change. Reality brings new possibilities, while destroying some too. It's true: the future is uncertain."


"I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it."



"We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were astonished every day."


"We are the new generation that will be raised up and will remain on high."


"In the future, churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, all of them will be museums! The intellectual progression of humanity will necessitate such a drastic and dramatic change in the human history!"


"When all the people in the world become technology and technology becomes the people, we shall see a new world!"


"We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely."


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


"Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen."
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