Quotes About Futurism

You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.

I love crime, I love sci-fi and many other things.

I want to see more sci-fi with black people.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

The best movie for me is a science fiction movie, the best books for me are science fiction books. I love this stuff.

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars.

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

Why would you not have a robot that looks like Abraham Lincoln? Why would it look like an erector set? Why use a computer with a punchcard, when you could use one with a touch pen on the screen? Why a car, when you could use a jetpack?

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

When I was a kid, I'd wake up extraordinarily early every morning and turn on the television, scanning for episodes of 'The Jetsons.' For some reason, I loved the notion of a future where there would be flying cars, supercomputers, and most of all, robot maids to take care of the chores.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.

Without knowing I had been Tut's child all the while, writing the Red World's hieroglyphics, thinking I thrived futures even in dust-rinsed pasts.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." —Arthur C. Clarke, 1962, from his essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination

I've been talking about how electronic books will come, and how important they will be, and all of a sudden Stephen King publishes one. I feel a complete idiot, as it should have been me.

we haven't even finished burying the artificial dinosaur skeletons in the crust yet.

Why do today what you can still do in a quarter of a million years?

I'm a huge fan of Philip K. Dick.

I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read!

I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.

I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.