I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

I learn from thinking about the future what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

To get nostalgic about other people's music or even about your own makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Every President that went to China I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

Words matter especially words defining complicated political arrangements because they shape perceptions of the events of the past attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present and expectations about desirable directions for the future.

I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen hopefully we're not too far lost.

To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.

On Australia Day 2010 as we enter this second decade of the 21st century Australians can be optimistic about our future but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging there is a simplicity that is crucial.

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

For example the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it we can explain it but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future even twenty years in the future is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future just like there is now.

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children n'est-ce pas?

As long as I do a good job I believe the future is going to take care of itself but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it when you knew the glaciers were melting.

The strange thing about Africa is how past present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz if you like.

I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that and I think that's good.

Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy cheerful rhetoric to them but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans human nature and the human future.