Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see... Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No - we will not do that.
Buckhannon, population 5,639, is a deeply conservative town and long has been. While coal is its past, oil and gas are its likely future. It's a town where guns are sold at yard sales, where Pentecostal churches are nearly as common as restaurants, and where distrust of Hillary Clinton is visceral and deep-seated.
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event.
I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.
I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!
Out of all my friends, I believe I'm the only kid whose dad made us work to cut rebars; we laid bricks in construction sites and did other real work every summer for minimum wage. Our dad said that it's important in the future that when we tell people to dig a hole, that you personally know how long it will take to dig that hole.
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
If I don't have headphones, I can't run. Nowadays, I listen to Drake, Future, and Boosie.
The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
AI is everywhere. It's not that big, scary thing in the future. AI is here with us.
The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism. That is the contribution Africa will make to the world of the future - an injection of sanity into the environment of the universe itself.
To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works.
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
Fear is when we're thinking about the past or thinking about the future, two things that do not exist. If we stay in the moment, do our best in the moment, enjoy the moment, there is no fear.
'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity.
The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
In football, I have learned to forget the past, think about the present, and the future will come as it may - thinking about it would be a mistake.
Before I leave this earth, I'm going to help people have a better future.