Janet Fitch Quotes

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works. You have to iterate quickly, and you should be prepared to fail. Because things often don't go as planned.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.

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.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once, then he's in.

Iteration, not ideation, is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas - a lot of bad ideas - if you want to end up with a good one.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

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.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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.

Failing is part of my process. A new bit never works the first time. I figure I have to bomb 7 times to make it good. So I tweak it.

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

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.