Roger Ebert, reviewing Barker's film Hellraiser https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hellraiser-1987, The Chicago Sun Times, September 18, 1987
“I have seen the future of horror and his name is Clive Barker.”
Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist
Stephen King, as quoted by Richard Harrington, reviewing Barker's film ' Hellraiser https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/hellraiserrharrington_a0aa6a.htm, The Washington Post, September 19, 1987
“I have seen the Future, and it works.”
Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936) American journalist (1866-1936)
Lincoln Steffens, letter to Marie Howe, 3 Apr. 1919. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations notes: "Steffens had composed the expression before he had even arrived in Russia."
“As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.”
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969) English writer
"A Conversation Between I. Compton-Burnett and M. Jourdain", in R. Lehmann et al. (eds.) Orion (London: Nicholson & Watson, 1945) vol. 1, p. 2.
Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
The Future
Song lyrics, Batman (1989)
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
As quoted in Jesus : Myth Or Reality? (2006) by Ian Curtis, p. 289.
Date unknown
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
a fake quote debunked on several websites, including metabunk.org https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-theres-a-plot-in-this-country-to-enslave-every-man-woman-and-child-jfk.t319/ <br class="br">Misattributed
“I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"The Future"
The Future (1992)
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Last Speech to the National Convention (26 July 1794)
