Quotes About Experimentation

There's no real theatre without taking risks.

In software, you can't know what's going to work, so, as Chuck put it, "When you build any new product, there's no sure way to know if the dogs are going to eat the dog food.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

always challenge yourself to try new things and keep learning.

De Herbert West, que fora o meu amigo durante os anos de universidade e tamén fóra dela, tan só podía falar cun intensi terror.

He was happy because, after such a long study, experimentation, and struggle, he could at last affirm the ultimate truth: there never were and never would be any madmen in Itaguai or anywhere else.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

Those who are successful at creating social epidemics do not just do what they think is right. They deliberately test their intuitions.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that don't work.

I haven't failed, I have just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Failure is always an option

Fail early, fail often.

If you haven't failed you haven't tried anything new...

The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife.

At sixteen Sabina took moon baths, first of all because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous. The effect of moon baths was unknown, but it was intimated that it might be the opposite of the sun's effect. The first time she exposed herself she was frightened. What would the consequences be?

Rather than construction, software is more like gardening—it is more organic than concrete. You plant many things in a garden according to an initial plan and conditions. Some thrive, others are destined to end up as compost.

Prototyping is a learning experience. Its value lies not in the code produced, but in the lessons learned. That's really the point of prototyping.

Well, software doesn't quite work that way. Rather than construction, software is more like gardening—it is more organic than concrete. You plant many things in a garden according to an initial plan and conditions. Some thrive, others are destined to end up as compost.

As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old courage, standing on one's own feet, and forever seeking enlightenment; courage to develop your way, but learning from the other fellow; experimentation with your own ideas, observing for yourself, a rigid discipline of doing over that which you can improve.

What made it happen? What made it not happen? Thinking of a cure, a week away from the city, a dinner party with other geniuses, a new rug, a new shirt, a new way to hold him in bed, and failing and failing and somehow, at random, succeeding. Was it worth it?

Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

All great works start with mistake. Ain't no exception in this fact.