Futurist Quotes - Page 2

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

  Edgard Varese

  Mean, Science, Expression

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  Edgard Varese

  Music, Dream, Mean

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-century Music: A Continuing Symposium". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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• Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

  Jamais Cascio

  Gathering, Development, Might

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

  Ada Leverson

  Past, Wells, Courses

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• I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Never Quit, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

  William Gibson

  Age, Doe, Mortality

  "Why William Gibson Distrusts Aging Futurists’ Nostalgia". Interview with Seth Dickinson, www.wired.com. February 8, 2012.

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• Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.

  Jamais Cascio

  Exercise, Covering, Use

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

  Anton Rubinstein

  Thinking, Composer, Call Me

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• I hardly see myself as a futurist.

  Dick Wolf

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

  Dan Brown

  Issues, Overpopulation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are no longer needed. Lean prose, great characters, and almost unbearable tension ensure that Robopocalypse is going to be a blockbuster. Once started I defy anyone to put it down.

  Jack Du Brul

  Character, Might, Unbearable

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• 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.

  Kevin Kelly

  Mean, Important, Principles

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

  Hermann E. Ott

  Avid, Reader, 80s

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

  Edward Tenner

  Revenge, Use, Paper

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

  Francis Picabia

  New York, Cities, Spirit

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• I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Paul Saffo

  Years, People, Lasts

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• While I talked about comparisons between Cap and Cable, there's also a parallel with Tony Stark. Iron Man thinks of himself as a 'futurist,' Cable is from the future. Both have been at war with their own bodies. We look for characters with touch points to Cable. Their legacy means an enormous amount to him.

  Jeph Loeb

  War, Mean, Character

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

  Kanye West

  Down And, Stuff, Slow Down

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• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

  Edgard Varese

  Musical, Alphabet, Poor

  Edgard Varèse lecture, edited by Chou Wen-Chung, published in: "391", Nr. 5. Translated by Louise Varèse; Quoted in: "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music: A Continuing Symposium" (1996), June 17, 1917.

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• I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

  Hal Sparks

  Technology, Community, Way

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• One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

  Lea Thompson

  Desire, Periods, Extremes

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• Surfers are the ‘throw-aheads’ of mankind, not the dregs; they aren’t the black sheep of humanity, but the futurists and they are leading the way to where man ultimately wants to be. The act of the ride is the epitome of ‘be here now’, and the tube ride is the most acute form of that. Which is: your future is right ahead of you, the past is exploding behind you, your wake is disappearing, your footprints are washed from the sand. It’s a non-productive, non-depletive act that’s done purely for the value of the dance itself. And that is the destiny of man.

  Timothy Leary

  Past, Destiny, Men

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• At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with my Futurist friends Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, Balla, Soffici, Papini, and Cavacchioli, there came to my mind the idea of a new art, one that only you can create: the Art of Noises, a logical consequence of your marvelous innovations.

  Luigi Russolo

  Art, Rome, Ideas

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