The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931
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I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620