You can't stop the future. You can only simulate it by stopping progress 



"The concept of progress acts like a protective mechanism to shield us
from the terrors of the future."  -- The Collected Sayings of Muad'dib


Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective. 
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "A Social History of Planet"


What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. 
Richard Bach, Illusions 


In fact, if you track the amount of exponential-doubling hype out there, and
the rate of its increase, I think that by 2008 you'll find people predicting
that the Singularity will occur in 1840.
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky


      That tinkling sound in the background -- that's the sound of my
whole little world shattering
               -Dan Martinez


"Not in vain the distance beckons. Forward, forward let us range
"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change"
Tennyson

"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and
accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves
nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new
things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the
seed of that which will be. But thou art thinking only of seeds
which are cast into the earth or into a womb: but this is a very
vulgar notion."

book 4 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius


"...on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble;
                                                            the wind can change."
                                                     - Spock, Star Trek:Time for Yesterday

Change and self-transformation are among the truest expressions of our
enduring human nature.  Virginia Postrel

It is impossible to make significant change by force. The only way to make significant change is to make the thing you want to change
obsolete. ---R. Buckminster Fuller


"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."  -
Edward Abbey.  But it is also the ideology of the orchid. - Anders Sandberg

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." 
-Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
                -Gail Sheehy


"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude.  Don't complain."
                -Maya Angelou

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can
say is they must change if they are to get better."
                -G. C. Lichtenberg

My favorite author, Vernor Vinge, at one time put forth a theory.  To
summarize, hoping not to mangle it too badly, it is as follows.

The power of government in growing...BUT....the power of individuals (thanks
to technological advance) is growing at a FASTER RATE.
EvMick <EvMick@aol.com>

"Change is good"
Wired

"If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunites to
change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world."

People are so tuned in to the near term that they aren't
thinking in terms of decades. Yet, over the long run, we
have a chance of fundamentally changing humanity.
Many people sense this, but don't want to think about it
because the change is too profound
 Daniel Hillis

But while change is painful, it's necessary too.
Without it, without turbulence and decay and unity
in variety, there's no rebirth, and life stagnates and
dies. We fear change, but perhaps we should fear
lack of change more, because the ultimate lack of
change is death. It's change itself that brings
meaning and richness to life.
Gregory J. E. Rawlins

When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the
year 2000. Now, thirty years later, they still talk about what will
happen by the year 2000. The future has been shrinking by one year per
year for my entire life.
 Daniel Hillis

All of us must become more competent at managing mindquakes. We must
keep up with the pace of change - otherwise the unpleasantness of the
process increases dramatically. We must learn to turn the Chinese
curse "May you live in interesting times" into a blessing.  Robert
Theobald

Anywhere there is variety there is the risk of change.
Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix