Future Quote by Douglas Adams

“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term “Future Perfect” has…

— Douglas Adams

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

— Terry Brooks

“there really is no such thing as ‘the future’, singular. There are only multiple, unforeseeable futures, which will never lose their capacity to take…

— Niall Ferguson

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

— Terence McKenna

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not…

— Alan Kay

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

— David Harsanyi

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

— Joe Haldeman

A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the…

— Edward M. Lerner

“science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.”

— Judith B. Kerman

“We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier…

— Rebecca Solnit