Quotes About Future

Life is full of disappointments, but we have to take some risks. None of us can predict the future, for only God knows what's to come.

If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

We are suspicious of those CEOs who regularly claim they do know the future—and we become downright incredulous if they consistently reach their declared targets. Managers that always promise to "make the numbers" will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long ago.

especially favourable future prospects were regarded by shrewd investors as something to look for but not to pay for

While investors and managers must place their feet in the future, their memories and nervous systems often remain plugged into the past. 

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.

My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

Act like you live in the Science Fiction Condition. Act like you can do magic and hold séances for the future and build a brightness control for the sky. Act like you live in a place where you could walk into space if you wanted. Think big. And then make it better.

Whenever I find myself somehow fooled into doing one of these talks, it's on the grounds that some confused soul thinks that I will talk about the digital world and the future. What always happens is that I rant for an unspecified length of time about obscure history and fringe beliefs. So you need to understand that you are now trapped in this room with me and I've already been paid. This is my cunning plan.

There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.

We are as gods on our little rock in the vast bleak cosmos and it's way past time we started getting good at that instead of just posing on Olympus and photoshopping our zits out. The future is more than an Instagram filter.

ADDENDUM: SOMETIMES THE FUTURE IS BULLSHIT

Prediction is the best circus act of all. But it is just an act. It's a carny turn. Stop doing it.

The near future? The future of anything is like some massive weather system on the horizon, pushing out thunderheads all over the place, and it's impossible to predict where the lightning will strike. And in 2011 it's worse than ever.

The near future? Pop will go down into the tube station at midnight and have sex. Lots of sex. And all those genres I listed earlier? Every single year will generate a list of new genres like that. Then every six months. Then every month. Then every week. Pop will fuck and mutate and survive. The new sounds will be everywhere, in too many places for us to notice them all at once. A million glorious bursts of incoherent noise.

The future arrived here a couple of weeks ago and nobody noticed. Because that's how the future always arrives. You don't realize it's here until you bump into it.

the future is a product, and you only get to vote with your money now

Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference.

The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.

Welcome to JG Ballard's future, fast becoming a consensus of its own, wherein the future is intrinsically banal. It is, essentially, the sensible position to take right now.

That's the future. City-states rammed with again people huddling up against hospitals and looking up in terror for the big storm that will come and go and leave them floating facedown in thirteen feet of shit. And I can't do anything about it.