You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.
Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
What I wanted to do was build an automobile.
I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.
I don't know how to drive a car.
You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.
You don't need to be an engineer or a tech person to benefit from technology. You can hire them.
We realized you cannot create a car by simply gathering needed components.