“Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step process: Build, measure, learn.” “[A startup is] … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” ThreeProcessStepsConditionsProductsCreatingOrganizationExtremesExperimentsUncertaintyOutcomesSomething NewDedicatedCreating Something Author:Eric Ries
“The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.” TryingMeanProgressConditionsUniversalExperiments Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.” MenMeanWarCertainSupportSawsConditionsWasteGunFoolishExperimentsAviationLionsWasting TimeRiflesAir PowerCaliberAirpower Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.” PlayStoriesRunningUniverseInterestingSeeingConditionsStageCreatingCastsTinyExperimentsLaboratoryTheatricalImposing Author:Marcus du Sautoy
“Since nothing can exist that does not fulfil the conditions which render its existence possible, the different parts each being must be co-ordinated in such a way as to render possible the existence of the being as a whole, not only in itself, but also in its relations with other beings, and the analysis of these conditions often leads to general laws which are as certain as those which are derived from calculation or from experiment.” WayDoeDifferentWholeLawCertainExistenceConditionsRelationExperimentsAnalysisCalculationsMorphology Author:Georges Cuvier
“The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at his best, their consistency in correcting his excesses, and the guidance they give him-will codetermine whether or not he eventually makes order out of necessary inner confusion and applies himself to the correction of disordered conditions. He needs freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that he cannot, in fact, make a choice.” NeedsGivingPersonsFactsYoungOrderChoicesTeachingConditionsAdultsExperimentsConfusionGuidanceWillingnessExcessConsistencyCorrectionsCorrectingEagernessFreedom To Choose Author:Erik Erikson
“... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown that the organism can reproduce in the body and be transmitted from one individual to another, the most important experiment remains to be done....to determine the conditions necessary for growth and reproduction of the microorganism.” Has BeensImportantDoneBodyIndividualGrowthAnimalConditionsRemainsDetermineDeterminedExperimentsOrganismsReproductionMicroorganisms Author:Robert Koch
“I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.” KnowsHumansMeanAcceptingConditionsChangedPainfulExperimentsHorribleHuman ConditionDisgustingFrighteningMonstrousMutation Author:Bruce Sterling