Future Relevance Quotes

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

The past is the present and the future too.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Ask yourself this question, will this matter a year from now?

It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

Jane Jacobs work wouldnt have been complete if it hadn't inspired others to carry it on, and evolve Jane's groundbreaking accomplishments so that the essential kernel of thought remains relevant for future generations. The essayists in What We See have built on those essential footholds that people who have never heard of Jane Jacobs will benefit from for decades.

I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.

From time to time, there are moments when I feel that even the smallest experiences from the past can be applied to something greater in the future.

Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.

The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

What may not have value to you today may have value to an entire population, entire people, an entire way of life tomorrow. And if you don't stand up for it, then who will?

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.