The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931
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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.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873