“Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make.The Killer Hook”

“We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.”

“First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children”

“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. ... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition”

“At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.”

“If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.”