Richard Corliss Quotes

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

You can never plan the future by the past.

The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Political activity means working for the future; the more we look into the future the more far-sighted will our policy be - so much the more clear and decided. The less far we try to see into the future, the more we content ourselves with the daily routine (Alltäglichkeit), the more weak and uncertain will be our policy of to-day. Every politician of note must, therefore endeavor out of the present to conclude what the future will be, and, if he wants to win the masses to his politics then he must attempt to make his expectations of the future plausible

No particular technology lasts for long.

Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

I'd love to know what the future looks like.

While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Trend is not destiny.

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

You gotta imagine what's never been.

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.