Steve Jobs Quotes

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.

I like to live in the future.

Creators love creations before they exist.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.

Look around less, imagine more.

It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable.

My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.

I'm bored with the same genre, the same remakes of things. I like original ideas and high-concept things where it's off the page and kind of fantastical.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like it when it enables you to do fairly radical reinterpretations of human experience, just to show all the different interpretations that can be put on apparently fairly simple and commonplace events. That I find fun.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.