#future

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#children #enjoy #future #neither #nor

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#future #technology #love

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#money #money

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#future #machine #science-fiction #men

Then there are the simple things. The way she fits against my side when we’re sitting together. How she can silence my addled thoughts with one look. The sound of my name from her lips. The way she can make a moment, any moment, a thousands times better when she is there. How the simplest pleasures in life become exciting with the promise of sharing the experience with her. ↗

— Erik Tomblin

#forever-and-a-day #friends #future #human #inspiration

...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future. ↗

— Gregory Benford

#the-future #movies

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese. ↗

— Iain Banks

#back #blade #blade runner #future #i

Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me And when I lose my direction, I’ll look up to the sky And when the black cloak drags upon the ground I’ll be ready to surrender, and remember Well we’re all in this together If I live the life I’m given, I won’t be scared to die. ↗

— The Avett Brothers

#once-and-future-carpenter #slammed #death

Someday all the wilds will be razed, and we will be left with a concrete landscape, a land of pretty houses and trim gardens and planned parks and forests, and a world that works as smoothly as a clock, neatly wound: a world of metal and gears, and people going tick-tick-tick to their deaths. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#future #death

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#eternity #every #faces #future #great