Quotes About Future

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

Design can also be used to invent strategic futures, make complex decisions, and craft a bold corporate vision. We need to move design up the ladder of influence.

Where you have been isn't half as important as where you are headed. Keep your sights and focus on the future.

Someday I'll wish upon a star.

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

Don't let your past determine your destiny.

I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it's up to you to walk through them.

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

No one can escape his destiny.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

You shape your own destiny.

The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

You are the mental architect of your own destiny