Invent The Future Quotes

#1. Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

Augusto Boal

#2. In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

Louise Bernikow

#3. The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.

Dennis Gabor

#4. Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

Bertrand Russell

#5. It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we try to get a mental picture of what things will be like long before we have begun the journey. Visions are our windows on the world of tomorrow.

James M. Kouzes

#6. Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

Seth Godin

#7. Steve Jobs: The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Walter Isaacson

#8. Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

Julio Cortazar

#9. We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

Alan Kay

#10. However inventive humans turn out to be, they will never invent their way around the laws of thermodynamics. That fundamental truth is denied by standard infinite-growth theory, which blithely projects productivity gains from technological innovation indefinitely into the future.

The Worldwatch Institute

#11. You look sad even though we just met No need to get upset But I got a show, gotta go, so I thank you And if you wanna still get sexed down You could catch the next Greyhound But until then, I gotta go, so I thank you

Eamon

#12. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Thomas Sankara

#13. We invent the past and remember the future.

Isak Dinesen

#14. And when all feels hopeless, remember that you are in charge of what goes into your body, you don't answer to anyone, and you are allowed to eat anything you want. Often just knowing we can eat whatever we want is enough to keep us from eating whatever we want. We're so rebellious.

Rory Freedman

#15. We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

Satya Nadella

#16. Pay him back, we really would have to do something

B.J. Novak

#17. You have to invent the future you want.

Vinod Khosla

#18. We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.

Richard Siken

#20. Let's go invent tomorrow!

Steve Jobs

#21. I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#22. You are my future, Kacie. You're my present and my future and if I could figure out a way to invent a damn time machine, you'd be my past.

Beth Ehemann

#23. Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

Susan Hockfield

#24. The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

Nancy Duarte

#25. We must dare to invent the future

Thomas Sankara

#26. And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.

May Sarton

#27. Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

Satya Nadella

#28. If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

Sam Mendes

#29. I don't make excuses, so don't make excuses for me. When I'm being an ass, it's because I have one.

Donna Lynn Hope

#30. You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

Frederik Pohl

#31. It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

Alan Kay

#32. Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!

Philippe Kahn

#33. I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future.

Joan Didion

#34. For students to understand what the future of journalism is going to be, they're going to have to invent it. It's a big idea. We don't know what journalism is going to look like in the next three years, let alone the next 10 years.

Steve Blank

#35. If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.

John Doerr