Noun
futures
plural of future
futures (plural futures)
Short for futures contract.
Instead of striving to be right at high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. Edward de Bono
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures. Terry Eagleton
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. Richard Bach
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in. John Green (author)
In such seconds of decision entire futures are made. Dan Simmons