Phil Schiller Quotes

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.

In world history man’s actions result in something quite different from what he purposes or intends.

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises.

Sometimes you don't see the result that you expect.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

Sometimes something you thought wouldn't really be as big as it was blows up into something else.

We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.

You know that something is good but you never really know how good. You always underestimate how much of an impact something is going to have.

There are always surprises in the Champions League.

I've only ever had surprises. My whole career's a surprise!

I can't imagine that, now that we have another way to look at the universe, that there isn't going to be some enormous surprises. Things that have nothing to do with what we already know.

The rule has been that when one opens a new channel to the universe, there is usually a surprise in it. Why should the gravitational channel be deprived of this?

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

I didn't know what I was going to get. You never do, when you're filming something for real.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.