Any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for."
                       --- Prof. Xavier

If the future's looking dark
We're the ones who have to shine
If there's no one in control
We're the ones who draw the line.
-- Neil Peart.

The future is bright, fruitful and positive.
   - Bob Marley

You can't escape escapism.

The future is not something you predict,
but something you create.
Robert Söderberg

Apocalypse is by no means inevitable
Jim Rice

The future lies in the hands of those who are able to give the coming
generation good reasons to live and hope. -- Pierre Teilhard DeChardin


The best way to predict your future is to create it.

there is a need for a
future culture. there is a
need for individual action.
there is a need for
thinking globally. there is
a need for us to be better.
Marius Watz

"There's nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia today, 
flesh and blood tomorrow."
Victor Hugo 

"I think it is important to have an
optimistic view of the future. If we all
allow ourselves to be hypnotized by the
'Bladerunner' vision of the future, then
that's what we'll get." 
- Douglas Adams

 Truth be told, to observe the future without altering it is a
scientific impossibility. But if your views remain fluid, even a false
vision is far more valuable than no vision at all.  James L. Halperin


Everyone could benefit, I think, from spending at least some time working
on some vast, visionary project that might only see completion far in the
future. Too many people in our world seem to suffer from an utter lack of
sense of purpose in their lives. They would be healthier people, and
society as a whole would be healthier, for the satisfaction derived from
knowing they contributed to such a great project - terraforming,
cathedrals, space colonies, planting forests, whatever.
Glenn Grant

' "Still," the kender said softly, "we have to keep trying and
hoping. That's what's important, the trying and the hoping. Maybe
thatÕs most important of all." '
       Dragon Lance Chronicles 
       vol. 1 p. 441 

The senator described to me her vision of society. We're on a train,
she said. A runaway train steaming furiously toward a collision with a
concrete wall and all she wanted to do was to put on the brakes before
it was too late. I say it's already too late. I say if we want to
survive, forget about the brakes and stoke the boilers. Let's get up
enough speed now so that no lousy wall of concrete can dictate our
doom. Enough speed to thrust this train right through the wall. We all
know that a straw, driven by a tornado, can pierce a fence post. We
have to ride that tornado. We have to ride that train. We have to find
out if there is life on the other side of the wall, because if we give
up now we are going to crash. Only audacity and nerve can serve us
now.  Linda Nagata

Gates motto: "I can do anything I put my mind to".

No man knows enough to be a pessimist." - Norman Cousins