The future has waited long enough; if we do not grasp it, other hands, grasping hard and bloody will.

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.

He was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he has left, yet does not say "The town is near," but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

This is the first age that has paid much attention to the future, which is rather ironic since we may not have one.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealized past.

If He has given us one marvellous gift, it is that He does not permit us to know the future. It would be unbearable.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.