The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.