Comfortable Quote by Vernor Vinge

I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science,…

— J. Allen Hynek

In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century…

— Charles Holland Duell

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century,…

— How to Dress Well

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

— Andre Malraux

When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future.

— Robert J. Sawyer

“And the years flow past, each of them as unremarkable as the next, as unnoticed as nanoseconds, in fact, not even long enough to…

— Arthur Graham

I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of…

— John Irving

I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view…

— Anonymous

If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years…

— Bill Buxton

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

— Bertrand Russell

Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure…

— Heinrich Hertz

I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.

— Olivia De Havilland