Thoughts on the future

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Map out your future, but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

—Jon Bon Jovi

American singer-songwriter

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.

—Niels Bohr

Danish physicist

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

—Jean de La Fontaine

French poet

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

—Victor Hugo

French poet, novelist and dramatist

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

—Warren Bennis

American scholar

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

—William Jennings Bryan

American politician

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

—Graham Greene

English writer and journalist

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

—James Joyce

Irish novelist

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to their work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

—Nikola Tesla

Serbian-American inventor

You can never plan the future by the past.

—Edmund Burke

Irish statesman & philosopher

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.

—Niels Bohr

Danish physicist

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

—Jean de La Fontaine

French poet

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

—Victor Hugo

French poet, novelist and dramatist

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

—Warren Bennis

American scholar

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

—William Jennings Bryan

American politician

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

—Graham Greene

English writer and journalist

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

—James Joyce

Irish novelist

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to their work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

—Nikola Tesla

Serbian-American inventor

You can never plan the future by the past.

—Edmund Burke

Irish statesman & philosopher