Futurist Quotes

• O my brother Futurists ! All of you, look at yourselves! In the name of that Human Pride we so adore, I proclaim that the hour is nigh when men with broad temples and steel chins will give birth magnificently, with a single trust of their bulging will, to giants with flawless gestures.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Brother, Pride, Men

  "Mafarka il Futurista". Book by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Preface, 1909.

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• In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that one had to get inside it. In my opinion the two views can be reconciled in a poetic cognition of the world. But to the very fact that they appealed to the creative depths in the painter by awakening in him hidden forces which were intuitive and vitalizing, the Futurist theories did more than the Cubist principles to open up unexplored and boundless horizons.

  Gino Severini

  Views, Two, Creative

  "Letters of the great artists" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 248), 1963.

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

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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• We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

  Jacque Fresco

  Inspirational, Children, Reflection

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• I think of futurists as people who have a particular attitude about the future. They're advocates for a certain kind of outcome. As a forecaster I am something very different. I am a professional bystander. I have opinions about the future, of course. But my whole posture is to be detached and to identify what I think will happen and not allow my judgments of what should happen to get involved.

  Paul Saffo

  Attitude, Thinking, Bystanders

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it.  I am a futurist.  I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.

  Jacque Fresco

  Technology, Paradise On Earth, Ends

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• If you had a free society you couldn't get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.

  Jacque Fresco

  Children, War, Intelligent

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

  Joichi Ito

  Thinking, Should

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• We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.

  Jacque Fresco

  Health, Cities, Political

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• 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

  Dream, Sound, World

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

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• Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral insufficient. I'm trying to give you back your brain, which they took away from you in schools and in your upbringing. I'm trying to show you how the world works. So if you want a better world, you have to get up off your ass and make it better

  Jacque Fresco

  School, Stupid People, Men

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• It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Change, Years, Editors

  Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.111, Ronin Publishing

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• If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.

  Jacque Fresco

  Reading, Thinking, Ideas

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• It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.

  Jacque Fresco

  Trust, Money, People

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• There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

  Jodie Foster

  Years, Trying, Fiction

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

  Jacque Fresco

  Science, Opinion, Study

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• It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know , you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.

  Jacque Fresco

  Life, Hurt, Disappointment

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• When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.

  Carlo Carra

  Thinking, People, Musical

  "The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells" by Carlo Carra (1913), as translated in: Mary Ann Caws "Manifesto: A Century of Isms," p. 203, 2001.

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• So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Thinking, Society

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• Crime is based upon need, making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to.  There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor.  There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off.  If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

  Jacque Fresco

  Money, Caring, Gambling

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• Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Common Sense, Style, Moral

  Statement in 1981. Special issue of Humankind Advancing, Volume 5, No.1, January 21, 1994.

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

  Ray Kurzweil

  Opportunity, Giving, Doe

  "How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 25, 2013.

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