Quotes About Iteration

Most work is not coming up with The Next Big Thing. Rather, it's improving the thing you already thought of six months - or six years - ago. It's the work of work.

and experience. Think of how people typically learn: We tinker. We try this. We try that. We see what works and what doesn't. We iterate. We learn. This is experimentation creating experience.

Think of how people typically learn: We tinker. We try this. We try that. We see what works and what doesn't. We iterate. We learn. This is experimentation creating experience.

The beauty of the innovation that flows from the open web is that no one has to ask for permission, get a credential, or win a Disrupt or Launch award to go prove their idea is worthy. They just... put up a page on the web, iterate, iterate, iterate... and eventually, a Facebook emerges.

The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works. You have to iterate quickly, and you should be prepared to fail. Because things often don't go as planned.

I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. —Reid Hoffman

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is worth ten thousand slides.

You never just do a scene once; you do it an insane amount of times.

The first instrument is not the final instrument.

You launch a site, and you see what works, and you continue to make it better.

A lot of great inventions are just little improvements on past ideas.

We are so fortunate that our IP has been so effective out in the marketplace that every time there's a new iteration, our developers feel a sense of pressure.

Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2.

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.

small batches of work, small teams, short cycles, and quick feedback—in effect, "small everything.

The client gets to see the next iteration of the system every three weeks, instead of waiting five years for one "big bang" delivery.

You can do anything with stacks and iteration that you can do with recursion.

As an actor, when you want to capture the spirit of the character, and the character exists in all of the iterations slightly differently, you work towards getting a sense of what the creators wanted to do, you know? Then, you work off of that.

The product cycle for the Oculus Rift will be between the rapid six-month cycle of cell-phones and the slower seven-year cycle of consoles. It's rare to see a phone not coming out every year.

The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?