Harper Reed Quotes

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a child that is born and wants to explore every little - open up every little drawer there is and find out how the world works.

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.

Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.