Top 35 Tinkering Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Tinkering Quotes from famous people such as Dawn Foster, Giles Foden, Caroline Knapp, Woody Norris, Melissa McCarthy, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Tory housing policy is the epitome of tinkering with th

Tory housing policy is the epitome of tinkering with the deckchairs while the ship is listing.
Dawn Foster
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
Giles Foden
Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
Caroline Knapp
I wasn’t much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.
Woody Norris
I’m always tinkering with something – suddenly I’ll think I can work with wood, but then I’ll realize I can’t, so I go back to sewing.
Melissa McCarthy
Tinkering with, and building the products Robinhood ships brings me joy.
Baiju Bhatt
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
Quincy Jones
I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn’t pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn’t last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.
Jeremy Stoppelman
Virginia ‘s tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform.
Mark Warner
You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a little off the beaten track.
Robin Sloan
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
I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.
Pat Mastelotto
I usually just write a song and record it that day, and then that’s kind of it. I’m not very good at going back and editing and tinkering it. It’s pretty immediate.
Arlo Parks
Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.
Beth Simone Noveck
You’re always trying to get better. You’re always tinkering. You’re always learning new things.
Kyle Korver
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.
David Hanson
There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, and (allowing for some tinkering around the edges) it will happen.
Atul Gawande
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
Aldo Leopold
As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.
Dean Kamen
Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.
Jens Martin Skibsted
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul R. Ehrlich
Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.
Eric Roberts
If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don’t spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.
Graham Hawkes
Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I worked on ‘Moral Orel’ and ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole,’ and they bothered us very little. They very, very seldom came to us and said ‘Change this,’ or ‘You can’t do that,’ or ‘We’d like to see this.’
Scott Adsit
As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.
Mike Schultz
At heart, I am still the guy who loves tinkering with machines and writing code.
Ritesh Agarwal
I’m not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That’s a slippery slope.
Mark Waid
America’s tax code is beyond repair. Tinkering with it won’t work. The only hope is a bold tax-reform plan that will liberate our nation from the slow-growth status quo and jump-start a new era of American prosperity and growth.
Kevin Brady
After I joined Google and stopped working on robots – I’d built some self-driving tractors on farms in the meantime – I was always tinkering and playing with robots at home and just as a hobby.
Anthony Levandowski
MPs are so cowed by the institutions and the scale of official failure that they generally just muddle along tinkering and hope to stay a step ahead of the media.
Dominic Cummings
The age of mass politics is one that demands radical solutions rather than tinkering.
Owen Jones
'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on ins

‘Humans of New York’ did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.
Brandon Stanton
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
E. F. Schumacher
Building and tinkering were such a huge part of our childhood, whether we were trying to entertain ourselves as kids, helping our parents out on the ranch, or getting creative with school projects.
Drew Scott
We wouldn’t have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons.
Donella Meadows