Experimentation Quotes

"I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face." "Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment." "Most large organizations embrace the idea of invention, but are not willing to suffer the string of failed experiments necessary to get there." "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." "Don't be afraid to break things." "If you aren't sure what you want, play around; I have never found one of my ideas while sitting at a desk." "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new" "Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth." "Looking back, it is not so surprising that humanity has remade itself so completely so quickly considering that it has always been an experimental animal" "The scientists of today have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality " "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative" "Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund." "The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world." "As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle. Amazon will be experimenting at the righ" "We understand that and believe in failing early and iterating until we get it right. When this process works, it means our failures are relatively small in size (most experiments can start small), and when we hit on something that is really working for cus" "To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment." "Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight." "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."