Quotes About Iteration

At Amazon, we are very careful about what big strategic bets we place, but the ones we make, we keep iterating until we find something that we think has resonance with customers.

be released under an open source license.) The open source dictum, "release early and release often" in fact has morphed into an even more radical position, "the perpetual beta," in which the

The reason such prototypes are sustainable, however briefly, and ultimately important is not their capacity to do what the technology is meant to do; rather, their value is in exposing a working model to more minds that might muse upon it and imagine a more evolved version. And

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

The lessons he learned were diligently applied to modify his methods, resulting in a continuous research loop

Scrum is a lightweight framework designed to help small, close-knit teams of people develop complex products.

Working software is the primary measure of progress.

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.

There are major benefits to building a game once and improving it over a long period of time based on user feedback and behavior. It's kind of depressing to have to build a game once, take all the user feedback, and then spend the next 3 years building another game.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Get your product into users' hands as quickly as possible and incorporate the crowd's feedback to iterate. Your customers will provide the data you need to chart the best course for your company and bury any competitor that goes it alone.

In their infancy, startups need geniuses who fit their current tight-knit culture and will iterate quickly as they push towards an ambitious vision - and they need a scaffolding of advisors, strategists, early users, and product-thinkers around these savants to guide them.

Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.

Sometimes I'll present a work to the public and listen to the responses-then pull it back, shape it, and put it back out.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.

What Microsoft is really good at is endlessly iterating and revving - incrementally improving things that already exist - and those things that already exist are generally acquired from the outside.

The key is to be quick and dirty—exploring a range of ideas without becoming too invested in only one.

Repetition is the mother of skill."

Building something by gradually refining a prototype is good for morale because it keeps you engaged.

Get a version 1.0 out there as soon as you can. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses.

Get a version 1.0 out there as soon as you can. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses.

Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstore, therefore, is like a safe-deposit box for civilization.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.