“The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.”– Bill Cosby Related Quotes “Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?”– David Byrne “Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”– Percy Bysshe Shelley “Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.”– Brian Eno