Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I often don't know what I'll be working on next year or a year from now. There is often a chance meeting, or something that I worked on 10 years ago suddenly becomes important again.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

I have this theory that I hold on to, the theory that everything great in art and in life in general is jazz. It's just like all these things that just kind of seem to fall into place. You know, like mistakes that somehow turn into something beautiful.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

Every film that I make is an accident.

It's always more fun when something happens outside of a script.

You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.

Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.

If you don't have a plan, you can end up doing some interesting things.