There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Stephen HawkingI think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.
Jeff BezosThe real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.
Thich Nhat HanhThis revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
Steve JobsA revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel CastroWhen we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
Desmond TutuTherefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Queen Elizabeth IIIf we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston ChurchillAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert CamusIt’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
Bob DylanProgress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Khalil GibranDo your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew CarnegieEveryone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.
DJ KhaledI look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John F. KennedyThe truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
Bill GatesI haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.
Taylor SwiftWhen I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Ernest HemingwayScience is magic that works.
Kurt VonnegutRockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.
Elon MuskOn my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
Bill GatesOnce the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Ray BradburyTechnology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill GatesI do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRemember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
Che GuevaraWhatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
George LucasWithout tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston ChurchillEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz KafkaI’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.
Steve JobsWhen I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.
Noam ChomskyAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. ClarkeThere are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
Noam ChomskyWhat we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
Jeff BezosPeople expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.
Robert GreeneI think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.
Keanu ReevesConservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin DisraeliThat is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
Barack ObamaPeople respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
Joel OsteenThe biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark ZuckerbergI had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
Brian EnoIt seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
Nikola TeslaMost of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.
Robert GreeneThe United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.
Elon MuskI’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.
Steve JobsThe future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James BaldwinAll the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank ZappaEntrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.
Richard BransonBut innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.
Steve JobsThe Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.
The WeekndWe polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.
Elon MuskOnce I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen KellerIn this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.
Alexander Graham BellSoon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
Fidel CastroThere are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.
Bill GatesThere is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe future is purchased by the present.
Samuel JohnsonWe are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. FeynmanNow everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.
Bill GatesYou do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
Wayne DyerWe can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.
Joyce MeyerGood ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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