Quote by Ray Bradbury

I'm a futurist.

— Hal Sparks

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

— Paul Saffo

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

— Paul Saffo

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

— Ada Leverson

I am not a neoconservative.

— John Bolton

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place…

— Peter Ustinov

Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.

— Francis Atterbury

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

— Tracy Letts

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

— Allan Bloom

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

— Epicurus