Quotes About Experimentation

I love experimenting; as a singer, one needs to be versatile.

I love experimenting with roles and that's what keeps me hungry for versatile roles.

I don't really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It's more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation with noise.

Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.

Why should I let anything stand in the way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of vivisection?

Why should I let anything stand in the way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of vivisection? I

The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals—humanised animals—triumphs of vivisection.

So that was our love affair. Wordless, blinkered, a nighttime thing, a dream thing. There were reasons on my side for this as well. Whatever it was that I was was best revealed slowly, in flattering light. Which meant not much light at all. Besides, that's the way it goes in adolescence. You try things out in the dark. You get drunk or stoned and extemporize.

It's a kind of fugue state, anyway, early sex. Before the routine sets in, or the love. Back when the groping is largely anonymous. Sandbox sex. It starts in the teens and lasts until twenty or twenty-one. It's all about learning to share. It's about sharing your toys.

Harris said: "If you never try a new thing, how can you tell what it's like?  It's men such as you that hamper the world's progress.  Think of the man who first tried German sausage!

Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?

Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.

I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.