FUTURE QUOTES III

quotations about the future


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You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

FREDERIK POHL
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"Science Fiction's Hidden Hero"


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I've seen the future and the future's nothing new.

THE ALTERNATE ROUTES

"The Future's Nothing New"


People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

GEORGE ORWELL

Partisan Review, Winter 1945


The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

ECKHART TOLLE

The Power of Now


The future was always more important than the past.

PAUL PARK

A Princess of Roumania


The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

DAN SIMMONS

The Rise of Endymion


Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

KELLY LINK

Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories


A wise man would ignore the future and drink and carouse while he still has an opportunity to enjoy this world.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Brisingr


Welcome to the future.... All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.

IAIN M. BANKS

Matter


A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

"My Future Plans,", The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein


The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


You glorify the past
When the future dries up.

U2

"God Part II"


Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight--behind the veil of glittering constellations.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

ALVIN TOFFLER

Future Shock


The future? I hate it because I will not be there.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

The Butlerian Jihad


The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

BILL WATTERSON

Calvin and Hobbes


The future is not google-able.

WILLIAM GIBSON

comments at A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, Feb. 5, 2004


Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

ROBERT E. HOWARD

Kull: Exile of Atlantis


Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.... You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

JOHN GREEN

Looking for Alaska


The best way to predict your future is to create it.

ROBERT ANTHONY

Think Big