Quotes About Experimentation

My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

I think my heritage makes me very open to try things, taking on different flavours, mixing it all up. I find that exciting.

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

A molecular gastronomist is really just someone who explores the world of science and food.

No one likes doing primate experiments, but some research can only be done on monkeys.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

As seventh graders, my classmates and I would make rockets to see what made them fly and models of remote-controlled motor boats because Palanpur had heavy rainfall.

Palchinsky principles': first, seek out new ideas and try new things; second, when trying something new, do it on a scale where failure is survivable; third, seek out feedback and learn from your mistakes as you go along. The

Here's the thing about failure in innovation: it's a price worth paying. We

wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He started by taking apart a

The Soviet failure revealed itself much more gradually: it was a pathological inability to experiment. The

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without

It's not about just coming up with the one genius idea that solves the problem, but trying and failing at a hundred other solutions before arriving at the best one.

That is the surprising, compelling mathematics of innovation: if you want more success, you have to be prepared to shrug off more failure.

Just as writer's block happens when writers stop writing, so, too, does innovation grind to a halt when prototypes stop being built. When the muse fails you, don't mope at your desk. Make something.

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If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

Had Ken Kesey opened Electric Kool-Aid stands on every college campus in the country, it would have made a lesser contribution than Life to the creation of that era of unprecedented foment we like to call "the sixties.

Discussion is to Christian philosophy what lab work is to the practice of biology.