Quotes About Experimentation

The effort is said to be only theoretical so far, but it is hard to think that pursuits in this direction have not already commenced here and there.

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

One evening, the story goes, the two men were looking out of their laboratory window in Heidelberg at a fire raging in the nearby town of Mannheim. Curious about what might be burning, they pointed their spectroscope at the flames. They were able to detect the presence of the elements barium and strontium in the fire, whose spectra they had previously identified in their laboratory. The question struck them immediately: if they could analyse flames in Mannheim, why not the surface of the Sun?

Dos 19 aos 25 anos, Anne. Estes são os "anos de loucura". É a época em que se deve ter loucos casos de amor, longas conversas com alguém que poderia ser mas não é, o grande amor de nossa vida. É quando a gente experimenta usar as roupas mais estranhas e muda de penteado dez vezes por mês, vai a festas esquisitas, bebe demais e vomita no tapete.

We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we're not going to do better.

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

Innovate as a last resort.

C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!

Even the most creative skills—especially the most creative skills—require long periods of clumsiness.

purposely operating at the edges of their ability, so they will screw up. And somehow screwing up is making them better.

City burning, in other words, was becoming something of a science.

Now, once a quarter, the company sets aside an entire day when its engineers can work on any software problem they want—only this time, "to get them out of the day to day," it must be something that's not part of their regular job.

The Tinkering School. More of a lab than a school, this summer program, created by computer scientist Gever Tulley, lets children from seven to seventeen play around with interesting stuff and build cool things.

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

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

A little bit of self-experimentation never hurt anybody, except when it did.

I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

I hope viewers see me as an actor who always strives to try new characters and reinvent myself.

I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it. What's interesting about it is that everybody knows these amazing restrictions we've put on it: I have to use my iPhone, I can only use one continuous take, I cannot edit afterwards, I cannot put sound afterwards.

I don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.

'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.

I know Ornette was playing violin sometimes - that was his bridge into the classical world, to break up that whole pecking order.

It is okay to experiment with language. Writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf experimented with writing, but basically, one must have a familiarity with the language. And to have that, one must respect it.