Steve Wozniak Quotes

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

The best ideas come out of getting lost.

If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage.

Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to us to paint upon it with our own dreams and imaginations anything we wish, anything we want, and anything we can imagine.

Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

Education is not just you learn how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.