Subject: Time » Future

Why should I do anything for posterity? … what has posterity ever done for me?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The future ain’t what it used to be.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

In the year 3000, everything will be instant… but the DMV will still take, like, nine f**king seconds.

(1972 – ) stand-up comedian & actor

I was a peripheral visionary; I could see the future, but only way off to the side.I was a peripheral visionary; I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is — he’s the reason you all live underground.

(1974 – ) Russian-born American comedian, writer & filmmaker

There’s no future in time travel.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

A hotel mini-bar allows you to see into the future and what a can of Pepsi will cost in 2020.

(1954 – ) American comedian, writer & musician

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

What happens when the future has come and gone?

businessman

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the – to the back.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

What Orwell failed to predict was that we’d buy the cameras ourselves… and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.

A very short one.

(1875 – 1997) French, 120 year old woman

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide,' and then one morning you wake up and realize you done slid.

(1921 – 1989) American boxing champion

Worrying about the future is a thing of the past.

(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past; I think the past was not predictable when it started.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

The future will be better tomorrow.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

The future will be better tomorrow.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

(1940 – ) computer scientist