Paul Buchheit Quotes

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

We are exploring creative models to pursue innovation outside the confines of our normal process, taking calculated risks and learning from them.

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

With innovation, there is always risk.

The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.