“I just can't wait for the future.”
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.
“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”
“I just can't wait for the future.”
“Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.”
“In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.”
“I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.”
“God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.”
“Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.”
“I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.”
“Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.”
“People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.”
“Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”
“There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.”
“I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'”
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
“What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?”
“For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.”