It is our job as members of parliament to legislate with an eye to the long term future to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place a safer place for future generations to live in.

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.

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.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past most the time.

One of the functions of an organization of any organism is to anticipate the future so that those relationships can persist over time.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

In charting our course to the future we are mindful of our path from the past.

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

An expectation is a future object recognised as belonging to me.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale you can face the future.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us the past is fixed while the future is open.