Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes

It's O.K. if you've got a smartphone app or a social network, and you go live with it before it's ready; people aren't going to die. But with medicine, it's different.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

There's no good idea that can't be improved on.

One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

Experimentation is an active science.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Testing, we will never do enough of it.

Aspen's investment in TesoRx will assist in the work being undertaken to bring this product to market and in investing behind TesoRx's pipeline and technology that has the potential to be used for a wide range of different applications.

Since the beginning, HTC has focused on developing strong research and development capabilities and keeping a close eye on consumer, market and technology trends.

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.

Efforts to approach zero risk through exhaustive pre-release testing are extremely expensive and time-consuming. New drugs are delayed in reaching those who need them, and marginal drugs may not be developed at all.

No trusting without testing

I just think that when you're coming out with a new product, you're gonna be criticized.

A company's commitment to searching out potential blockbusters and then investing in marketing to convert potential to reality attracts and retains top scientists and creatives.

Skunk works differed from advanced research groups in that they were more than just product development groups. They had direct interaction with customers and controlled a sales channel which allowed them to negotiate their own deals with customers.

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

We all want our drugs to be safe - and so an essential part of the pathway to the development of a new drug is approval by a regulator.

By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly testing new gadgets.

Healthcare is a conservative marketplace.

Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.