Prototype Quotes

• I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

  James Dyson

  Mind, Made, Solutions

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• As you make a prototype, assume you are right and everyone else is wrong. When you share your prototype, assume you are wrong and everyone else is right.

  Diego Rodriguez Telechea

  Assuming, Share

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• Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong.

  Diego Rodriguez Telechea

  Motivational, Ifs

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• The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

  Sigmund Freud

  Anxiety, Firsts, Birth

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1959). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

  Roger Martin

  Philosophy, Design, Innovation

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• Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.

  Win Ng

  Success, Business, Ideas

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• Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

  Eric S. Raymond

  Polish

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• The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

  Amari Cooper

  Learning, Giving, Programming

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• A prototype is a question embodied

  Diego Rodriguez Telechea

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• The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

  Laurie Anderson

  Problem

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• A prototype is always more expensive than anything.

  Wes Anderson

  Expensive

  "Wes Anderson Interview FANTASTIC MR. FOX". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. November 27, 2009.

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• If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

  Jonathan Ive

  Design, Ifs

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• God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

  Graham Greene

  God, Numbers, Evolution

  Graham Greene (2010). “Travels With My Aunt”, p.246, Random House

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• I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Ideas, People, Use

  "The house that helped build Google" by Jefferson Graham, abcnews.go.com. July 5, 2007.

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• He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!

  Tom Peters

  Work, Reign

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• Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

  James Dyson

  Disappointment, Years, Firsts

  "Failure can be an option" by James Dyson, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Language, Interpretation

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• Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.

  Dave McClure

  Waiting, Investing, Scales

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• I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.

  Steve Wozniak

  Drinking, Iphone, Gray

  "Woz Has Fun With Leaked iPhone T-shirt". www.cnet.com. April 23, 2010.

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• It isn't easy for me to have contact with the industry, because it is so outdated. Look at General Motors, look at -Mercedes, look at Chrysler, look at Porsche, look at BMW . . . They are all building cars from yesterday! Nobody has an idea how the car of tomorrow should look. I've built them already. I have the prototypes in my exhibition, but they won't do it.

  Luigi Colani

  Car, Tomorrow, Building

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's why we call for a New Deal prototype. Which means we are creating the jobs - nationally funded program but locally controlled - with guidelines to achieve 100% clean renewable energy through wind, water and sun by 2030. Also to create a sustainable food system, since this is a major portion of climate emissions, and also calling for public transportation as well as infrastructure restoration including in that ecosystem restoration.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Mean, Wind

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The gates of hell will not be able to withstand these people! They are people who will build a new prototype for today, and unlock a Kingdom mentality that hell cannot withstand. They will have centers for gatherings that will be known as Glory Fire Freedom Outposts.

  Chuck Pierce

  Fire, People, Gathering

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• It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

  Marcel Wanders

  Ideas, Interesting, Design

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• I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Engineering, Long

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• Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Stories, Links

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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