Malcolm D. Lee Quotes

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

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

When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises.

With innovation, there is always risk.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

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

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

All progress is experimental.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.