Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

I like to discover new things, and I'm always testing new apps.

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

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

We have the right to go and try new things and, if those things don't work, go back to what we were doing at first.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

Make mistakes faster.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Consider everything an experiment.

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

There is no knowledge without risk taking.

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.