Gene Roddenberry Quotes

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 challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: Please don't despair.

You'll find the future wherever people are having the most fun.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

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

I'd like to believe that tomorrow is another challenge for me. I'm sure there is lots more for me to do, because there is lots and lots of stuff still to be explored.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.

The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.

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.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.