4,759 Quotes About Future

Make the machines rather than just operate it.

We don't know the terrible things that are coming our way....We just see the shiny surface, our own beautiful selves reflected in it. Not the monster lurking beneath.[Shirley Harding Dufresne]

Years earlier, in a video about world history, I’d speculated about what might happen “if some superbug shows up tomorrow and it travels all these global trade routes.” In 2019, I’d said on a podcast, “We all must prepare ourselves for the global pandemic we all know is coming.” And yet, I did nothing to prepare. The future, even in its inevitabilities, always feels vague and nebulous to me—until it doesn’t.

Most of us were fortunate enough to be born with the Blue pill until the RED pill eventually found us.

The past lay shattered and bleak, torn by trenches, thick with mines. But the future was rolling hills and untouched forest, an open sea, a fair-weather sky.Nikolai followed his queen through the mountains and knew hope would lead them home.

The best way you can contribute to a better future for humanity is to leave notes for who is coming next.

It's hard to think of posterities, when today is so urgent.

We spend too much time either imagining the future, that vast expanse of unborn possibility, or else wandering the past, the land of the dead. And yet I return there, again and again, as if watching it unfold in my memory can affect the outcome. As if the past could ever be as changeable as the future.

Only a few short weeks ago, we shared the glory of man's first sight of the world as God sees it, as a single sphere reflecting light in the darkness. ... In that moment of surpassing technological triumph, men turned their thoughts toward home and humanity, seeing in that far perspective that man's destiny on earth is not divisible.