David Cage Quotes

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

With innovation, there is always risk.

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.

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.

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

You have to expect failure; not everything is going to work.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

I guess you can say I always liked to take chances. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't.

I had no idea if 'No Roots' was going to work or not.

With risk, sometimes you have tremendous success, sometimes not so much.

The easiest thing is to create something no one has ever seen before. There's a reason no one's ever seen it - because someone tried it, and it didn't work in the real world.

In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.

When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.

In 'Condition Zero,' failure has greater consequences and success offers greater rewards.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.