futurologists’ favourite quotes
from The Tomorrow People:
Henry Ford: ‘If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.’
Alvin Toffler, futurologist and writer: ‘The future always arrives too fast… and in the wrong order.’
Prof Alan Kay, computer scientist based at UCLA: ‘The only way you can predict the future is to build it.’
Rudyard Kipling: ‘If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.’
William Gibson: ‘The future has already happened, it just isn’t very well distributed.’
to which I would add
Albert Einstein: ‘I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.’