Constance Baker Motley Quotes

The past does not equal the future.

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

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.

Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.

It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow.

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

Play on the frontiers of technology. Be ahead of the tomorrows.

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.

We are not here to do what has already been done.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.