Quotes About Experimentation

be released under an open source license.) The open source dictum, "release early and release often" in fact has morphed into an even more radical position, "the perpetual beta," in which the

It's okay to make mistakes; just make new ones!

there has never been a better time for testing the uncommon.

You don't need more recipes. You need to learn to cook without them.

I eventually learned to cook by focusing on two principles. Both of them apply to all learning and will be your constant companions throughout this book: failure points and the margin of safety.

Sports evolve when sacred cows are killed, when basic assumptions are tested. The same is true in life and in lifestyles.

Always make new mistakes!" I actually get royalties of about $50 per year from Quotable Quotes for this one.

What was the "grail"? 25 mg of acarbose (¼ pill) with food. He learned this trick from Peter Attia (page 59), who I introduced him to.

Last but not least, much of what I recommend will seem impossible and even offensive to basic common sense—I expect that. Resolve now to test the concepts as an exercise in lateral thinking. If you try it, you'll see just how deep the rabbit hole goes, and you won't ever go back.

To become "successful," you have to say "yes" to a lot of experiments. To learn what you're best at, or what you're most passionate about, you have to throw a lot against the wall.

You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.

MBA—$30K per year Commit to spending $2,500 per month on testing different "muses" intended to be sources of automated income. See The 4-Hour Workweek or Google "muse examples Ferriss" as a starting point.

Sometimes, whether in the world of fire-making or cooking, finding the path of least resistance is as easy as Googling "backward," "upside-down," or "reverse," plus whatever skill you're deconstructing.

I love this idea of the states being this laboratory of democracy where we try things out in one state, and if it works, we take it someplace else…But if you're going to do that, you actually have to take what those successful states did. Not just a piece of it. All the hard parts. (from The Economist article "The reading wars" 6/12/2021)

You have to try new things. You can hate failure, but you mustn't let the fear of it paralyze you.

We think the fastest way to clean the ocean is to learn by doing.

It's OK to make mistakes... Try different things.

When you try new things, you will make mistakes. That's OK.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with... even if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's only fashion.

I don't use old music.

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.