Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Revolutions go not backward.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

Money does not change people, people change.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

I 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.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.