Quotes About Future

A sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future. The former is concrete and real; the latter is necessarily amorphous and more easily guided by those who can manipulate human actions and beliefs.

In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens ; and to modify his nature accordingly.

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.

There's no problem with borrowing from the future in order to finance investments in the future.

the mammoth deficits that will be racked up beyond 2020 are due almost entirely to rapidly rising health-care costs along with seventy-seven million baby boomers whose bodies will slowly be deteriorating.

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?

Marriage is a serious undertaking. You must submit to family congratulations on certain events, and have a nursery at the top of the house. One doesn't know what a nursery may lead to.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.

Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

The true professional knows that delivering function at the expense of structure is a fool's errand. It is the structure of your code that allows it to be flexible. If you compromise the structure, you compromise the future.

Coined the term "Aerial Robotics

Such was classical Marxism's prospectus for the post-revolutionary future. Leninist Marxism's innovation was to interpose—for a backward country like Russia—a whole historical epoch between the proletarian revolution and the advent of socialism.

I wanted to sell tomorrow to the highest bidder and settle down forever in July second.

If the world doesn't come to an end in the next thirty or forty years,' he said, 'we may be facing disaster.