Mike Krieger Quotes

If you go deep into a problem, you'll find most all of the time that there are yet more problems to be solved from the ground up.

Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

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

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

Give it a kick at the right place and it'll work.

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

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies for addressing the root causes and then go about solving them.

There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say 'OK we'll have another go' instead of it being the only chance you get.

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.

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

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 have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

In tech, you create the foundation; even sometimes if it doesn't work, you take that same developmental idea, and you use it to apply to a different area.

Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.

When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.

The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.

I like to really spend the time and figure it out and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. It's hard to do that, because you always want to go with your impulse thought and you wonder if that's the one, did that work, you know?