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Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.'

My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.

Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.

Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.

As anyone who has tinnitus knows, it's not something that you can ignore, and you have to deal with it on a daily basis.

Tink is the voice of the youth. I'm not one of those artists who talks about unrealistic things or fairy tales. I'm not talking about expensive things and cars. I'm actually talking about what's going on in my life and every teenager's life, too.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.