I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992
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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967