Next 100 Years Quotes

#1. Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.

Kevin Brady

#2. I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.

Terence McKenna

#3. Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.

Michio Kaku

#4. If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.

Bill Walton

#5. It's unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we've already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introducing, through human activity, entirely new types of dangers by developing powerful new technologies. We have no record of surviving those.

Nick Bostrom

#6. I have $100 billion ... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime ...

Bill Gates

#7. To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.

Michio Kaku

#8. I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

Catherine Opie

#9. Although it is important to examine the consequences of today's actions far into the future, it is important not to confuse far future actions with what is done today. The impact of emissions that are made after 2100 has no bearing on what the world should do for the next 30 or even 100 years.

Robert O. Mendelsohn

#10. The air smelt of booze, sweat and cheap perfume - redolent of sex and danger. There was a kind of frontier recklessness about the atmosphere, Bond thought, and recognised its allure.

William Boyd

#11. A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

Earl Blumenauer

#12. If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.

Bill Maris

#13. I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

Don Johnson

#14. The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

Bjorn Lomborg

#15. Successful people have all had to do things they didn't feel like doing in order to get where they are.

Rory Vaden

#16. Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

Marc Faber

#17. Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.

John Shadegg

#18. Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.

Willard Scott

#19. Money is created through bank debt. When you go for a mortgage through a bank, they give you $100,000 to buy a house and basically send you out into the world to bring back $200,000 in the next twenty years. The first $100,000 is principal, and the second is interest.

Bernard Lietaer

#20. The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

Saul Griffith

#21. Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all.

John K. Brown

#22. Commit your life to God and He will be committed to blessing you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. Chess is a natural cerebral high.

Walter Browne

#24. There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years ... We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.

Paul Wolfowitz

#25. Marmalade has to make its own way in life, like the rest of us, she thought.

Gregory Maguire