I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.
Arthur C. ClarkeThis is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
Arthur C. Clarke