Futurist Quotes

I'm a futurist.

— Hal Sparks

I love futurist music.

— Brian Reitzell

I'm not a futurist.

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Ada Leverson

“These months drive us to listen within.”

— Charol Messenger

It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.

— Jacque Fresco

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

— Dick Wolf

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

— Joichi Ito

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

— Hermann E. Ott

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

— Francis Picabia

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

— Gloria Steinem

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

— Jacque Fresco

“...not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.”

— Edward Tenner

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

— Ray Kurzweil

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

Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research…

— Jamais Cascio

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

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the…

— Lea Thompson

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

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal.…

— Jacque Fresco

“The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“I believe the futurist approach is far superior to the other views. It is the only view that consistently follows the principles…

— Mark Hitchcock

And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones,…

— Giacomo Balla

O my brother Futurists ! All of you, look at yourselves! In the name of that Human Pride we so adore, I…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do…

— Roisin Murphy

It should also be born in mind that the research on 'movement' and the dynamic outlook on the world, which were the…

— Gino Severini

At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with…

— Luigi Russolo

Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes…

— Jack Du Brul

I think of futurists as people who have a particular attitude about the future. They're advocates for a certain kind of outcome.…

— Paul Saffo

“«Once, I went to this little meeting of Microsoft kids. Like, this high-school trip thing, but it was very exclusive. We met…

— Bruce Sterling

I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of…

— Jeffrey Deitch

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

— Dan Brown

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

— William Gibson

I'm not a futurist, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now.

— Alex Stamos

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

— Jacque Fresco

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

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I've actually tried not to call myself a futurist for the last 25 years. I prefer "forecaster," but people call me a…

— Paul Saffo

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive…

— Jamais Cascio

I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and…

— Elaine Equi

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

— Anton Rubinstein