Top 32 Futurists Quotes
#1. Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'
Jamais Cascio
#2. I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
Gloria Steinem
#3. Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.
Jamais Cascio
#4. O my brother Futurists ! All of you, look at yourselves! ... In the name of that Human Pride we so adore, I proclaim that the hour is nigh when men with broad temples and steel chins will give birth magnificently, with a single trust of their bulging will, to giants with flawless gestures.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
#5. ...Take the leap, they said. Live the billionaire's myth of immortality. And why not now, I thought. What else was there for Ross to acquire? Give the futurists their blood money and they will make it possible for you to live forever.
The pod would be his final shrine of entitlement.
Don DeLillo
#6. I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'
Joichi Ito
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#10. Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
William Gibson
#11. Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
Dan Brown
#12. The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
Britt Daniel
#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. The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief moment, they were arguably the most influential aesthetic provocateurs in the world.
Jonathan Galassi
#15. Logic, order, truth, reason, we consign them all to the oblivion of death," said one Surrealist manifesto. We must "cultivate the hatred of intelligence," said the leader of the Futurists, Filippo Marinetti, an artist hailed by Mussolini as the John the Baptist of Fascism.17
Leonard Peikoff
#16. The Futurists? ... Well, of course, they are already past.
Ada Leverson
#17. It's as if the railroad were looming on the horizon, and the most visionary thing the futurists of the day can think of to say about it is that these iron horses will have a disastrous effect on the hardworking manufacturers of oat-bags for horses.
Cory Doctorow
#18. Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.
Jamais Cascio
#19. There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.
Jodie Foster
#20. Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.
Roger Wolcott Sperry
#21. One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
Lea Thompson
#22. Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
Octavio Paz
#23. I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.
Hermann E. Ott
#24. It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.
Sherry Turkle
#25. This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
Kevin Kelly
#26. Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
Rachel Kushner
#27. Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
John Locke
#28. The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
Helen Keller
#29. Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg
#30. The two fountains spoke to each other in the pretty speech of falling water ...
Pat Conroy
#32. What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.
Jessica Maxwell
