Jensen Huang Quotes

What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

… there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure.

[It is] ... a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

If the facts change, I’ll change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

I'm not one of these people who thinks I know all the answers.

I try not to be an ideologue about anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm willing to evolve.

I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery.

The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

We cannot be so scared that our ideas or opinions will not survive being tested. If you are afraid of being wrong, then you might not have a good argument.

I think it's very important to keep in the back of your mind: 'What if I'm wrong?'

Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.