I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most…

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was…

— Douglas Adams

By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire…

— Max Nordau

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something…

— Dan Gilroy

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

— Oriana Fallaci

“Vengeance took no account of innocence or right. It was the chain that bound horrific events together, that decreed that one awful act must…

— Robin Hobb

If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create…

— E. O. Wilson

“Africa remains a small part of the world economy until 2070, when it begins to expand rapidly, reaching 14 percent, the same size as…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about…

— Bertrand Russell

As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and,…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

I think, at the end of the century we'll have a generation of parents and a generation of children who won't have had the…

— Alison Gopnik

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

— Hortense Calisher

By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

— James Lovelock

“But the latest climate models paint a very bleak picture. According to their predictions, by the 2040s such summers will be happening every other…

— Heidi Cullen

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

— Neil Armstrong

Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil…

— David Goodstein