Lynn Jurich Quotes

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

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

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.