Tierra Whack Quotes

The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.

Experimentation is an active science.

The heart of science is measurement.

Science is about filling in the details.

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

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Science is not the glamour that's portrayed in films. It's a lot of drudgery work, along with the wonderfully exciting periods when you discover something.

We need to get across the excitement and creativity of science. That it isn't just a list of facts that have already been discovered - but a process, a creative project, that you are generating ideas, testing them and looking for evidence.

The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an area where there might be truffles. The pig searches diligently for the truffles. Finally, he locates one, and just as he is about to devour it, the farmer snatches it away.

The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

When you open your mind up, and you go into a creative state, you can't just switch if off. When you have an idea, a creative impulse, and then you ignore it, it can keep you up when you just want to go to your bed - which is why it's great to have voice recorders on your phone!

Build something, make something, test something, sell something. Learn for yourself if your idea is a good one.

My job is to put as many ideas out there as possible every day. Some of them will get traction, some won't - some of them shouldn't.

The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.

Prototyping is the conversation you have with your ideas.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.