Tinkering Quotations

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

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

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

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

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.

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

I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.

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

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.

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We would still oppose the price cap law. I can't imagine that tinkering with it will affect the underlying consensus by experts against this.

We're still tinkering with the lineup. We're pretty much set on Nos. 1-4, but 5-9 is still unsettled. We need to figure that out and see where our offense goes from there.

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.

She blocked well. We'll keep tinkering with our lineup. We might even move up a few players.

Right now, everything is in place for the competition to really begin. In the past, manufacturers were tinkering with standards and technology, but now that they have that all figured out, the race has begun.

Our position is that it must be implemented as is. It's a very complex agreement. A lot of detail. Very delicate proposition and any tinkering with the proposed compensation package would cause it to unravel. And that's a view held very clearly by our experts who were involved in the negotiations.

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.

Tinkering with it is tantamount to shutting down the regulation, Are you indicating that there will be no cooperation from DHEC if we don't pass it?

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...

What Republicans need now are bold plans to downsize the federal government, not some wishy-washy tinkering around the edges.

We are trying to get more kids involved. We are trying to get kids to feel good about themselves. We have been tinkering the last couple of games. But no matter who's in the game, we play the same. We like to get into people's faces, and play pressure defense. I would like to see us get quicker and faster like Michigan State. We want to run up and down the court.

One day I went over and started talking to him and one thing led to another. I asked if he'd be interested in sort of helping and maybe get involved in the program. He started tinkering around. One day, there he is with a rake around home plate. He would always say, 'I don't want to step on any toes here,' but he always had great suggestions. It just grew and grew and grew.

A lot of guys are tinkering with a lot of stuff down here. But I want a job, I want to start, I don't want to tinker with anything. It's all or nothing for me. I want to go out and get people out.

This is the part of the year where you start tinkering with things, seeing what works and what doesn't. We put a couple of different line-ups out there tonight. We're seeing what line-ups will work for us. I think all the girls, when they stepped in, played hard, and that's all you can ask from them.

It's mostly confidence. From a technical standpoint, you look at last year's tape and compare it to the year he had with Dodgers, and there's not a lot of outstanding problems. He's close technically, with maybe a little tinkering or refining needed here and there.

It's so flawed that we think the attorney general should just withdraw it. You cannot fix it by tinkering with it.

The biggest single step that the president could take to cut our oil addiction, curb global warming and save consumers money at the gas pump is raising (fuel economy) standards substantially, and that's not what they're doing. They are tinkering around the edges rather than using the most powerful tool they've got.

It takes a while to figure a car out, to get a complete understanding of what's going on with a car. I love working on these cars, tinkering on stuff. You're always after the perfect car.

I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

Instead, what we see is yet another blue-ribbon panel tinkering around the edges of a system that is absolutely broken.

I heard that Jacques was a real innovator always tinkering with the equipment and stuff,

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

These kids grew up 30 miles south of the (University of California) Berkeley campus, which was ripe with revolution, ... And they couldn't have cared less about the politics going on. They were in the garage tinkering with their electronics and starting a revolution that was a thousand times greater than anything that was going on on the college campuses, politically.

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

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

The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts

Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected.

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.