“The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.”
The future is equal parts promise and uncertainty. These quotes explore what lies ahead — technology, progress, hope, anxiety — and the uncomfortable truth that the future is being built right now by the choices we make today.
“What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.”
“The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.”
“We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.”
“My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.”
“God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.”
“I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.”
“And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.”
“I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.”
“For every minute, the future is becoming the past.”
“Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.”
“The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.”
“Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.”
“Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.”
“The best prophet of the future is the past.”
“Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.”
“The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.”