Steve Jobs Quotes

We must dare to invent the future

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

Without imagination, I don't think there's any progress.

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.

You gotta imagine what's never been.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

It is today that we create the world of the future.

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.