Futurist Quotes

#1. I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

Hal Sparks

#2. Scarborough never really began to live until the summer of 1964 when the Beatles played the Futurist Theatre, and no one in the audience, least of all me, heard anything but the screaming.

David Hewson

#3. New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

Francis Picabia

#4. To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.

Umberto Boccioni

#5. In the words of futurist Arthur C. Clarke, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Dan Brown

#6. To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.

Warren Ellis

#7. I hardly see myself as a futurist.

Dick Wolf

#8. Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

Ray Kurzweil

#9. I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.

Erwin McManus

#10. He was a futurist. They were all futurists. Everyone here gazed into the abyss for a living. Do it long enough, and the abyss would gaze back into you. If the abyss did that for long enough, the people who paid you for your eyes would send you to Normal Head. The

Warren Ellis

#11. In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

William Gibson

#12. I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

Kanye West

#13. Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

Anton Rubinstein

#14. I'm not a futurist.

Ray Bradbury

#15. I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric.

Michio Kaku

#16. People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

#17. The most exciting breakthrough of the twenty-first century will occur not because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human," said the futurist John Naisbitt.

Keith Ferrazzi

#18. We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.

Jacque Fresco

#19. Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

Edward Tenner

#20. There's more courage in admitting you love someone and fighting for them than letting them go because it hurts less." Suddenly,

Kandi Steiner

#21. I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.

Rebecca Loos

#22. Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.

Laini Taylor

#23. I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'

Joichi Ito

#24. Christ died"
that is history; "Christ died for our sins"
that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

J. Gresham Machen

#25. The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high
beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.

Thomas Nashe

#26. Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong - or fairness versus unfairness - that we are used to, we can compare the habit to distraction during meditation.

Sharon Salzberg

#27. I write more with the words I leave out.

Bryant McGill

#28. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston S. Churchill

#29. You know, people thought it was so sad that I gave up so much to take care of Emmy, but it wasn't sad. It was love, it was life.

Ellen Airgood

#30. Determining how many asbestos suits have been filed or how much companies have spent to resolve them is difficult. Cases are filed in state and federal courts, and many companies do not disclose their spending on settlements.

Alex Berenson

#31. I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.

Hermann E. Ott

#32. Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

Robin Sharma

#33. These months drive us to listen within.

Charol Messenger

#34. The Futurists? ... Well, of course, they are already past.

Ada Leverson