Anticipation Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it…

— James Gleick

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

— Ayn Rand

You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

— Homer

The end of the world is approaching, maybe by the year 2010.

— Johnny Hart

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

— Mark Twain

The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

— Bill Gates

You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.

— Anonymous

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed!!

— Anonymous

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

— Brian Eno

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

— Mattie Stepanek

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the…

— Michael Chertoff

I believe this can be a breakthrough year for America.

— Barack Obama