Quotes About Experimentation

I love young directors who experiment with subjects. But I am definitely not choosy. I don't get that many offers to be selective.

Young photographers must experiment all the time and not be frightened of using light - freely-shooting straight into the light if need be - making an effort to get new angles on much photographed subjects, and also discovering chemical properties of film itself.

Innovation is doing something in a different way, but it also has a subtext: When there's an established way, and that way is considered the best practice and how it's traditionally been done, innovation comes by and says 'Let's try a different approach.' It doesn't need to be big or company-wide - it could be a single thing.

As it turns out, many pharmaceuticals are offshoots of various chemical weapons developed and used during the two major world wars, and some were even tested on prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. You

In his early work, he focused on verbal exchanges in order to understand the logical, rational thought of the child. However, when he later studied the development of intelligence in infants, he realized that to fully understand the origins of the operations of verbal thought one has to first examine the manipulation and experimentation with objects (Piaget, 1952).

In contrast to primary circular reactions, secondary circular reactions are centered on the effect that infants' actions – often by chance – produce in the external world. Essentially, secondary circular reactions aim at reproducing the effect by repeating the action that generated this effect in the first place.

One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.

Never be afraid to try something new remember amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.

change only one variable at a time. The goal is a functional program, not confusion.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.

Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!

A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

Make mistakes faster.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

A true innovator does best, what he doesn't know best.

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

the basic metaphor of prototypes still seems apt to me. There are no answers or magic pills. There is no alternative to learning through experimentation. Benchmarking and studying "best practices" will not suffice—because the prototyping process does not involve just incremental changes in established ways of doing things, but radical new ideas and practices that together create a new way of managing.