Future-Proofing Quotes

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

Over-dependence on finite resources, like oil, ignores the ability of our great minds to develop alternative energy for the masses, and in doing so ignores climate change and sets up our students and workforce for failure by not educating them about the needs of our future.

European economists and populations talk too much about redistribution within the member states and across the member states and are talking too little about how to create value in the future—to fortify our position in order to be successful in the future world.

Every business needs to get out of their own mindset and into the aspirational mindsets of their customers and clients and create services and products that are beyond their customers' imagination but will be what they 'gotta have' in the future.

… in an age of accelerating change, when even the most sophisticated skills are quickly outdated, we will find many allies in the developing world who are coming to understand that the most important skill anyone can learn is the ability to go on learning.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Our great trouble is that we tend to bring up our children for the world in which we ourselves have lived. We rarely take into consideration the changes which have come about in our own lifetime and which are likely to come about before our children are fully grown. Perhaps we handicap them unnecessarily by too much anchoring to the old and too little preparation for the new.

There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today.

Whether you lead an early-stage startup or a well-established company, it is critical to challenge yourself and your team to prepare for the next disruptive force - be it a shift in the market, a new consumer trend, or a competing innovation.

Now is the time to fix the next 10 years.

I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don't want them to be dated.

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

Any of our businesses will not exist in the form that is today, will not exist in the same form one year later, two years later... We have to worry about the disruptions in the business models and the practices.

Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

The key thing is to invest in the future, and what that means is - when you're deploying technology or you're a technology business - is to make sure that you're keeping on the innovation cycle, where you're both creating and adopting the new business practices and the new techniques in order to drive your business the right way.

We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.

If we don't take an approach that looks holistically at the form a video-game platform should take in the future, then we're not able to sustain Nintendo 10 years down the road.

Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.