Futurist Quotes

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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.

I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'

I've actually tried not to call myself a futurist for the last 25 years. I prefer "forecaster," but people call me a futurist, and it doesn't really bother me.

Leaders scan the future so it can be free of doubts and fear. They do so by not living a double standard life in the present.

The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of the present.