Future Quotes

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18, 000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1, 000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1 2 tons.
Popular Mechanics, March 1949
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as nutty methods. Or you can put well - Researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time.
Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Henry kissinge - we cannot always assure the future of our friends...
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
Gifford Pinchot
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis
Thich nhat hanh - life can be found only in the present moment. the...
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.
Graham Green
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.
Dame Rebecca West
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
Abraham Maslow
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Alvin Toffle
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
Frank Herbert
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.
Aeschylus
John fitzgerald kennedy - history is a relentless master. it has no...
Only a fool walks backwards into the future.
Terry Goodkind
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andr Gide
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.
Lao Tzu
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian Tracy
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James Arthur Baldwin
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
George Orwell
When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.
I Ching
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.
Michael J. Gel
My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.
Ralph Abraham
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan Watts
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Frank Herbert, Dune
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
Lyndon B. Johnson