“Sometimes the future isn't funny.”

“Isn't the future necessarily going to be dominated by machine life?”

“Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?”

“Resilience isn't predicting the correct future and preparing for it; resilience is acting in ways that make sense across the widest range of possible futures.”

“What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening—all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.”

“Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong. Sometimes they arrive to market too early and so must wait for the demand to catch up. Sometimes they are too late and so must accelerate to rejoin the future.”

“sometimes our future is
dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.”

“I used to be afraid of dying. Now I’m afraid of not living. There’s a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes.”

“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”

“For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment— the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.”