The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'

AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10,20,30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.