Quotes About Trial-and-error

Experimental innovators like Rock, Brin and Page, Bezos, and Beethoven don't analyze new ideas too much too soon, try to hit narrow targets on unknown horizons, or put their hopes into one big bet. Instead of trying to develop elaborate plans to predict the success of their endeavors, they do things to discover what they should do.

The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

no matter what happened to him now, whatever became of what was left of humanity… nothing could take away his experiences of these last remarkable few weeks. Nothing could reverse, not really, the striking ways in which Wesley had grown. And nothing could erase the contributions he'd been able to make to the cause – finally, fumblingly, through sheer trial-and-error and dogged persistence. He'd been part of a great undertaking. And part of a team.