Archer John Porter Martin Quotes

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

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.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Failing is part of my process. A new bit never works the first time. I figure I have to bomb 7 times to make it good. So I tweak it.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.