Quotes About Future

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

The investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

Then it's not the past I yearn for, but the idea of a time when everything important has not yet happened: — Lawrence Raab, from section 5 of "The Uses of Nostalgia," What We Don't Know About Each Other (Penguin, 1993)

After I squirmed into the snakepit of national politics, I realized that a ruler must equate the unpredictable with the unreliable. The future was too important to leave to whim.

In the case of the SF genre, the basic rule was, is, and always has been: Come up with a startling idea and set it loose in astonishing ways in a future world.

100 invested at 7 percent interest for 100 years will become 100,000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.

and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won't look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly marry you.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

When I grow up I am going to be the gangster we are all looking for.

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

We don't do focus groups—that is the job of the designer," said Jony. "It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design."12

At a 2018 Apple shareholder meeting, Cook was optimistic about the future of Apple Pay and other contactless payment systems. "I'm hoping to be alive to see the elimination of money,

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself.

Time has ghosts. That's what time is: the ghost of every instant passed, haunting the potential of every moment to come.

The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.

Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky men, and sky cities. Mountains of stone are built out of men's visions. Towers and skyscrapers swing up out of their wills and up out of their hearts.

He didn't give me any choice. Don't you see? Your futures, your lives, would have been ruined. But if he was dead, the FBI had no case. You had a chance of coming out of this unscathed.