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Quotes About Future

Using past performance to pick tomorrow's winning mutual funds is such a bad idea that the government requires a statement similar to this: Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. Believe it!
~ Taylor Larimore
You'll always know more in the future than you know now.
~ Taylor Swift
The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.
~ Taylor Swift
I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.
~ Taylor Swift
The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
~ Taylor Swift
Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
~ Ted Bell
Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.'
~ Ted Chiang
Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.
~ Ted Chiang
I'm not sure if I'm ready to have children. I asked a friend of mine who has children, "Suppose I do have kids. What if when they grow up they blame me for everything that's wrong with their lives?" She laughed and said "What do you mean if?
~ Ted Chiang
I would be honored to relate everything I know of the future, if Your Majesty sees fit to ask, but for myself, the most precious knowledge I possess is this: Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
~ Ted Chiang
To Stephen Hawking and all others younger than myself I say, "Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
~ Ted Chiang
What if the experience of knowing the future changed a person? What if it evoked a sense of urgency, a sense of obligation to act precisely as she knew she would?
~ Ted Chiang
There's a joke that I once heard a comedienne tell. It goes like this: "I'm not sure if I'm ready to have children. I asked a friend of mine who has children, 'Suppose I do have kids. What if when they grow up, they blame me for everything that's wrong with their lives?' She laughed and said, 'What do you mean, if?' " That's my favorite joke.
~ Ted Chiang
No one relishes the prospect of humans being conceived artificially. But can you offer an alternative?
~ Ted Chiang
Fate laughs at men's schemes.
~ Ted Chiang
The existence of free will meant that we couldn't know the future. And we knew free will existed because we had direct experience of it. Volition was an intrinsic part of consciousness.
~ Ted Chiang
Some find irony in the fact that a study of our brains revealed to us not the secrets of the past but what ultimately awaits us in the future.
~ Ted Chiang
right now your digients, amazing as they are, have no marketable job skills, and you can't predict when they'll get any. How else are you going to raise the money you need?" How many women have asked themselves the same question, Ana wonders. "So it's the oldest profession.
~ Ted Chiang
What distinguishes the heptapods' mode of awareness is not just that their actions coincide with history's events; it is also that their motives coincide with history's purposes. They act to create the future, to enact chronology.
~ Ted Chiang
The existence of free will meant that we couldn't know the future. And we knew free will existed because we had direct experience of it. Volition was an intrinsic part of consciousness. Or was it? What if the experience of knowing the future changed a person? What if it evoked a sense of urgency, a sense of obligation to act precisely as she knew she would?
~ Ted Chiang
The heptapods are neither free nor bound as we understand those concepts; they don't act according to their will, nor are they helpless automatons. What distinguishes the heptapods' mode of awareness is not just that their actions coincide with history's events; it is also that their motives coincide with history's purposes. They act to create the future, to enact chronology.
~ Ted Chiang
Das Vorhandensein des freien Willens bedeutet also, dass wir die Zukunft nicht kennen können. Und dass es einen freien Willen gibt, wissen wir, weil wir ihn unmittelbar erleben. Willensentscheidungen sind ein wesentlicher Bestandteil unseres Bewusstseins. Stimmt das wirklich? Was wäre, wenn dieses Wissen ein dringliches Verlangen zur Folge hätte, ein Gefühl der Verpflichtung, genau so zu handeln, wie die Person wusste, dass sie handeln würde?
~ Ted Chiang
Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
~ Ted Cruz
Practically speaking, today is yesterday and there is no certainty tomorrow will ever arrive.
~ Ted E DeGroot