“We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.”– Kofi Annan Related Quotes “The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.”– Paul Valery “To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.”– Jean Baudrillard “Since we can’t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.”– John Holt