James Gleick Quotes

The future ain't what it used to be.

There’s a big difference between history and the future.

When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future.

The future is the shape of things to come.

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

I don't know what will happen 100 years from now.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

The future lies ahead.

Depend upon it, Sir, nothing will come of them!

You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.

I get asked all the time, What do you do differently than 10 years ago, or what will you do differently in the years to come?' In the years to come, I have no idea.

It's difficult to talk about the future because you never know.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future.