“When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about 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.
“If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.”
“When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.”
“The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.”
“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.”
“If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.”
“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”
“As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.”
“Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.”
“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.”
“I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.”
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
“Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.”
“To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.”
“I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.”
“What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?”