I never think of the future – it comes soon enough. Albert Einstein, summary of Einstein’s remarks by reporter
Once social change begins it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid any more. We have seen the future, and the future is ours. Cesar Chavez
The future ain’t what it used to be. Yogi Berra, American baseball player, attributed
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. W E Gladstone
I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started. Donald Rumsfeld
I like men who have a future and women who have a past. Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde
... the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse. Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
We have trained them [men] to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain – not as something which everyone reaches at the rage of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters 1942
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla
Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into? Neil deGrasse Tyson
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment. Mark Twain
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. In the nineteenth century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the twentieth century it means schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. Erich Fromm, The Sane Society, 1955
Time travel might be possible. But if that is the case, why haven’t we been overrun by tourists from the future? Stephen Hawking, interview Horizon: The Time Lords, BBC 1996
Time: will it ever come to an end? Where does the difference between the present and the past come from? Why do we remember the past but not the future? Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Time will not reverse direction when the universe begins to contract. ibid.
Time flows like a river ... It flows at different speeds in different places. And that is the key to travelling into the future. Stephen Hawking’s Universe: Into the Universe: Time Travel: Is Time Travel Possible? Discovery 2010
But one day if somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great great great great granddaughter coming from the future going backwards in time to meet her illustrious ancestor – don’t slam the door. Professor Michio Kaku
We run into trouble with cause and effect ... Travelling into the future is possible, but suppose you want to come back again? Issac Asimov, Horizon: It’s About Time, BBC 1980
Ten things we definitely need to know that will for better or for worse change our lives. Horizon: Ten Things You Need to Know About the Future, BBC 2017
How can we cheat death and live for longer? … Not dying is a good place to start. ibid.
Mental health issues are the number one cause of people being unable to work … Things are really set to get a lot worse. ibid.
2016 for instance was the hottest year on record the Earth has ever had. ibid.
Gene therapy will transform medicine. ibid.
‘A robot or artificial intelligence could take my [doctor] job?’ ibid.
The demand for energy consumption to increase … how do we keep the lights on? … Renewable energy is here to stay. ibid.
There will be cyborgs. ibid.
67% of species will be lost since the 1970s. ibid.
The flow of Time always seems to be in one direction, toward the future. But that may not be right. Brian Greene, Beyond the Cosmos: Time Warp I
Why haven’t we been overrun by tourists from the future? ibid.
We don’t have to worry about paradoxes when we travel into the future. The Universe s5e4: Time Travel, History 2010
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden
For the last month he had forgotten he was ill ... As he walked homewards after being paid, feeling unutterably depressed and weary, he began once more to think of the future; and the more he thought of it the more dreadful it appeared. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
‘OK. Some day – we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and …’
‘An’ live off the fatta the lan’,’ Lennie shouted. ‘An’ have rabbits. Go on, George! Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it Tell about that, George.’ John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Have you ever thought right I mean you don’t know but you might already have had the happiest moment in your whole fucking life and all you’ve got to look forward to is sickness and purgatory. Naked 1993 starring David Thewlis & Lesley Sharp & Katrin Cartlidge & Greg Cruttwell & Claire Skinner & Peter Wight & Ewen Bremner & Elizabeth Barrington & Gina McKee & Darren Turnstall et al, director Mike Leigh, Johnny
A roof terrace, a primary school with a paddling pool, a movie screen made of concrete, a sports hall; inside corridors that stretch one hundred and fifty metres, 337 apartments for 1,600 residents under one roof. The Bauhaus Spirit, Sky Arts 2019
The twentieth century was rich in visions of utopia and better societies. The questions was, How to build a new world. And who could build it. ibid.
It was first and foremost a school: a campus home for Utopians, inventors and dreamers. ibid.
‘This kind of interdisciplinary thinking and working.’ ibid.
The Bauhaus moved far away from its Arts & Crafts room, and with this building it jumped straight into the industrial movement. ibid.
Now it was time for large apartment buildings. ibid.
Modern architecture from Europe lived on in the international style of New World cities. ibid.
‘First they had to improve buildings, then the city had to be viewed globally. The most famous congress was when a group travelled by boat from Marseilles to Athens: Walter Gropius Le Corbusier, Miles van der Rohe. Together, these modernists developed the idea of a charter which was intended to be a guide for urban planners.’ ibid. dude
100 years ago, an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes our lives today. Bauhaus 100, captions, BBC 2019
The Bauhaus was the first truly revolutionary design movement. It’s a movement that only existed for fourteen years and yet it had a kind of worldwide impact. ibid. Michelle Ogundehin
The Bauhaus was the brainchild of Walter Gropius who created the school and became its first director, and is now considered one of the greatest architects and educators of the twentieth century. ibid.
Gropius now produced a manifesto, a kind of mission statement in which he outlined his vision. At the Bauhaus all the disciplines would come together to create what he considered to be the pinnacle of artistic achievement: a building. ibid.