Tinkerer Quotes

#1. The garage is the space for the hacker, the tinkerer, the maker. The garage is not defined by a single field or industry; instead, it is defined by the eclectic interests of its inhabitants. It is a space where intellectual networks converge.

Steven Johnson

#2. 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.

Bre Pettis

#3. Natural selection is not a master engineer, but a tinkerer. It doesn't produce the absolute perfection achievable by a designer starting from scratch, but merely the best it can do with what is has to work with.

Jerry A. Coyne

#4. I'm a collector, a tinkerer, and a tweaker, like a lot of people, and recording equipment is really easy to fetishize.

John Vanderslice

#5. Evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.

Natalie Angier

#6. By the time someone gave me some samples of standard screenplays I was already beyond that stuff, because I was not only a tinkerer in ways to do things, I'd started from Dylan Thomas. As a screen dramatist he was a very intense visualist, with great timing and fluency.

William Monahan

#7. 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.

Leroy Chiao

#8. My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

Nick Park

#9. Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

Roger Ebert

#10. Evolution is a tinkerer.

Francois Jacob

#11. I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.

Chris Carmack

#12. Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

Francois Jacob

#13. At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, he learned that a properly run company could spawn innovation far more than any single creative individual. I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company,

Walter Isaacson

#14. Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.

Jay Leno

#15. Holy crap, you are like a dog with a bone," I commented to Ryan.
"Or just one with a boner.

Stacey Marie Brown

#16. Any writer who waits for inspiration to strike will never finish a book. Inspiration is all very well but it will never replace sheer dogged determination.

Barbara Michaels

#17. Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

Mary Augusta Ward

#18. I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

Eddie Marsan

#19. It's always easier,' he offered at last, 'when you feel these things yourself; seeing them in other people reveals just how ugly they are.

Michelle Sagara West

#20. A key piece of advice from Hermosillo was to have faith in oneself. He would often tell Guillermo, If a road is not presented, you build one.

Guillermo Del Toro