Nathan Blecharczyk Quotes

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

With innovation, there is always risk.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

When you try to create something different, there is always a mix of enthusiasm and skepticism, and I think this is fair.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

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

All progress is experimental.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.