The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873
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All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Not 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.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884