Adam Sadowsky Quotes

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.

The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied.

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once, then he's in.

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

Scouting is like CIA work and investigative work. You create a lot of stuff and try a lot of stuff. Some works and some doesn't. I try to get creative.

Data science requires having that cultural space to experiment and work on things that might fail.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.