Quotes About Experimentation

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.

Essentially, 'Z2' ended up feeling the way that it should, but it was through a considerable amount of trial and error that it took to get there.

When you're first starting a show, any show, you learn what works and what doesn't work, and it's a kind of trial and error thing.

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

I will smoke crack before I die. I want to see what all the hubbub is about.

If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

Toddlers are active explorers. They eagerly try new things and use materials in different ways. Toddlers want to be independent and they have a strong sense of ownership.

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

By attempting to "write bad" for twenty minutes, they'd somehow managed to produce remarkable work. From AWP - The Writer's Notebook

One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try. —Sophocles

If you want a great site, you've got to test. After you've worked on a site for even a few weeks, you can't see it freshly anymore. You know too much. The only way to find out if it really works is to test it.

Go out there and try on everything - short skirts, long skirts, mid length, little jackets, men's clothing - and really look at yourself; really walk around in the clothes. Don't just take someone else's advice. You must feel you in these clothes and feel what it's like to live in them.

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.