#future

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#folly #future #humanity #ignorant #important

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#again #boring #conforming #ever #everything

The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#boring #continue #follow #future #going

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#change #claim #does #future #history

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#enough #future #how #into #know

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#critical #democratic #democratic state #direction #few

Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to ↗

— John Steinbeck

#look-ahead #men #steinbeck #men

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#die #everything #future #make #order

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#china #fewer #fewer people #future #people

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me. ↗