Megan Smith Quotes

Prototyping is the conversation you have with your ideas.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

One of the reasons microcomputers progressed so fast is people are willing to accept crashes. It's faster to build something and try it, even if it means you'll have to rebuild later... If you spent too much time building and massaging one vehicle, you don't learn anything.

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.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

You have a lot of ideas …. I want them so I can test them.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.

For me, every one of our projects is a research-and-development project.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.