Masai Ujiri Quotes

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

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

I view myself as an experimentalist. I've tried everything in the book, and I have replicated results to one extent or another.

One of the main reasons for success on the show is that we're not a demonstration show. We're an experimentation show.

I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

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.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

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

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

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

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.