Quotes About Experimentation

The game's evolving quickly, man, and somebody's gotta be trying some new stuff.

Electronic music has existed since the '70s, and it's almost comical how many subgenres of it there are.

We experimented with stuff that some might find crazy, but we wanted to widen and make the spectrums of influence much larger, because house and electronic music is about freedom.

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Well, I don't really use MIDI that much. But I do record audio around me a lot, and just layer it up and see what effect it has, without any aforethought.

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

That is the most liberating thing to feel as an actor: that you don't have to hold back or be afraid. A bit might not work, but it doesn't matter.

If you see a look in a magazine that you like, try it.

Paradox Walnut: Burbank took a slow growing Walnut tree and made it grow fast, thus the name Paradox. Museum thought it was dead and cut off a branch. It was alive. OOPS!

This is the last avant-garde. Bold new forms. The power to shock.

If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things.

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

What do you know of Sidney Gottlieb?" "Rings a bell. Isn't he the mind-control LSD guy from the CIA in the fifties and sixties?

You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it.

strategic planning is less useful, what replaces it? Strategic experimentation.

They accept that failure is an integral component of moving forward and, instead, create an environment where "unsafe" thinking and failure are encouraged, recognized, and rewarded.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

The Q-32 would go on to support a lot of good research in education, psychology, and display technology.

Uhn, there are so many bad ideas in the world," Vasiht'h muttered, rubbing his face. "Then let us go forth and make those mistakes," Jahir said. "And learn something from them.

Of course: because it was in one of the camps that he went blind. They had performed some failed experiment on his eyes in the camp. 'No, not summer camp,' Franny had to tell Lilly, who had always been afraid of being sent to summer camp, and was unsurprised to hear that they tortured the campers.

They had not done the wild things that had no basis in their understanding of the workings of the body. They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza. Others had done these things and more, but they had not.

Which raises another question: How does one know when one knows? In turn this leads to more practical questions: How does one know when to continue to push an experiment? And how does one know when to abandon a clue as a false trail?

But how does one know when to persist, when to continue to try to make an experiment work, when to make adjustments—and when finally to abandon a line of thought as mistaken or incapable of solution with present techniques?