Rob Pike Quotes

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Do it. Try it. Fix it.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

I'm catching up. I'm satisfied with the show. I think I want to get better and better and keep building. It took a while to figure out how to do it. I didn't know how it was gonna go. I was just like, "I better book a show and just see what happens."

Do it, fix it, try it.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

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.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes