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.
—George Moore, 1888
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Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764