Steve Wozniak Quotes

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.