Roger Garaudy
(1913–2012) French philosopher
“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.”
—
William Gibson
,
book
Pattern Recognition
Source: Pattern Recognition
Last update June 3, 2021.
History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's…" by William Gibson?
William Gibson 117
American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder … 1948Related quotes
“Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.”
Marshall McLuhan
(1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 132
“At any given moment the choice to be happy is present — we just have to choose to be happy.”
Steve Maraboli
(1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 19
“It's the moments when we take risks that show the courage we have in speaking our minds.”
Prevale
(1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Sono i momenti in cui corriamo dei rischi che mostrano il coraggio che abbiamo nel dire ciò che pensiamo.
Source: prevale.net
Sam Harris
(1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Sam Harris, "Death and the Present Moment", speech at the Global Atheist Convention (April 2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITTxTCz4Ums&t=21m21s
2010s
Jun Hong Lu
(1959) Australian Buddhist leader
Words of Wisdom from Buddhist Master Jun Hong Lu, Volume 1 (2016) ISBN 978-0-6482300-1-4
Leslie Weatherhead
(1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.77-78, (Paul Tillich: The Shaking of the Foundations. 1963. Pelican Books. p. 164
Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter
(1909–1988) Marquess of Exeter
On Eagle's Wings, 1977, p. 159
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings
Peter Kropotkin
(1842–1921) Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geogr…
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Context: It is not without a certain hesitation that I have decided to take the philosophy and ideal of Anarchy as the subject of this lecture.
Those who are persuaded that Anarchy is a collection of visions relating to the future, and an unconscious striving toward the destruction of all present civilization, are still very numerous; and to clear the ground of such prejudices of our education as maintain this view we should have, perhaps, to enter into many details which it would be difficult to embody in a single lecture. Did not the Parisian press, only two or three years ago, maintain that the whole philosophy of Anarchy consisted in destruction, and that its only argument was violence?
Nevertheless Anarchists have been spoken of so much lately, that part of the public has at last taken to reading and discussing our doctrines. Sometimes men have even given themselves trouble to reflect, and at the present moment we have at least gained a point: it is willingly admitted that Anarchists have an ideal. Their ideal is even found too beautiful, too lofty for a society not composed of superior beings.
Ray Kurzweil
(1948) Author, scientist, inventor, and futurist
"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)