Quotes About Experimentation

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're funny offstage, you can figure out a way to be funny onstage.

A concert is my experimentation time. I practice playing something several different ways, but in a concert, inevitably I get more ideas onstage, in that combination of focus and adrenaline, than I could ever get in the practice room.

Obviously, working at Google wasn't a mistake. I used to just walk around. I don't know if I was supposed to, but I'd just open doors and see what people were doing.

I have an open mind and I'm willing to do whatever.

We did a student-initiated project of 'A Little Night Music', which was the first time that all of the divisions - music, dance, drama, opera - came together and put on a piece. It was a black box kind of feel. We had to get costumes that were pieced together. We had our own lighting that we finagled.

It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes. And he sets his mind to unknown arts.

And he sets his mind to unknown arts

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

I am always doing things I can't do. That is how I get to do them.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it

Science," said the French philosopher Valéry, "is a collection of successful recipes.

El mundialmente famoso psicólogo B. F. Skinner comprobó, mediante experimentación con animales, que premiando la buena conducta los animales aprenden más rápido y retienen con más eficacia que castigando la mala conducta. Estudios posteriores probaron lo mismo aplicado a los seres humanos.

Scientific advancement carries risk. It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone's sake.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote."   TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO

No one can ever know in advance if a project is going to result in something useful. Results are often negative. We learn what something is not—and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before.

If you experiment a lot you will fail often but at the same time your odds of success will also increase. Success and failure go hand in hand; they are not mutually exclusive. Learn to look at success and failure as gradations on a continuum, not as binary opposites.

I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

I've had watermelon hair where I had pink with green tips. From the age of 13 to about 19 or 20, I never had my real hair color.

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

The university thought of itself as a place of freedom for thought and study and experimentation, and maybe it was, in a way. But it was an island too, a floating or a flying island. It was preparing people from the world of the past for the world of the future, and what was missing was the world of the present, where every body was living its small, short, surprising, miserable, wonderful, blessed, damaged, only life.