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Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

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.

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.

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

I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of.

In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.

I always thought Tinker bell was really cool. I'd like to be able to shrink down to a really small size and fly around to places, play tricks on people... you know, fairy-like stuff.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation.