J. G. Ballard - "Does the future still have a future?."

Joel Barker - "No one will thank you for taking care of the present if you have neglected the future."

Ruth Benedict - "Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future."

Bernard Berenson - "There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to distinguish between them."

Wendell Berry - "But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present."

Niels Bohr - "Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future."

Ray Bradbury - "I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."

Edmund Burke - "You cannot plan the future by the past."

Christian Nestell Bovee - "When all else is lost, the future still remains."

Albert Camus - "Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present."

Karen Chikodroff - "We cannot let the past cloud our perception of the future."

Winston Churchill - "I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "And in today already walks tomorrow."

Jesse Conrad - "Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future."

John Dator - "Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous."

Robertson Davies - "The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."

Fritz R. S. Dressler - "Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - "As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it."

Albert Einstein - "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

Eugene Forsey - "I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable."

Anatole France - "That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."

R. Buckminster Fuller - "We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."

Dennis Gabor - "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."

William Gibson - "The future has already happened, it just isn't very well distributed."

William Gladstone - "You cannot fight against the future. Time is on its side."

J. B. S. Haldane - "Whatever hasn't happened yet will happen, and no-one will be safe from it."

Patrick Henry - "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

Heraclitus - "There is nothing permanent except change."

E. J. Hobsbaum - "The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen the furthest into it."

Eric Hoffer - "In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

François Jacob - "Without expectations, there's no future, only an endless present."

Thomas Jefferson - "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

Alan Kay - "The only way you can predict the future is to build it."

Robert F. Kennedy - "The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present."

Charles F. Ketterling - "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

Søren Kierkegaard - "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."

W. Somerset Maugham - "The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now."

John Maxwell - "Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present."

Marshall McLuhan - "We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."

Jane O'Reilly - "We must remember the past, define the future, and challenge the present -- wherever and however we can. It will take the rest of our lives even to begin. But then, what else have we to do?"

Henri Poincare - "It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."

Marcel Proust - "What we call our future is the shadow that our past projects in front of us."

John Schaar - "The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination."

Herbert Spencer - "The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."

Robert Louis Stevenson - "Sooner or later, we sit down to a banquet of consequences."

Mark Strand - "The future is always beginning now."

Alvin Toffler - "The future always arrives too fast... and in the wrong order."

Alvin Toffler - "All plans imply an attempt to impose the values of the past... on the future."

Mark Twain - "For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment."

Paul Valery - "The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."

Voltaire - "It is said that the present is pregnant with the future."

Alfred North Whitehead - "It is the business of the future to be dangerous."