Tinkering Quotes

Tinkering Quote of the day

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

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

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.

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

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

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

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

There are lots of people out there who prefer tinkering to winning - it gives them a good excuse.

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.

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.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

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

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

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

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.

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.

Devolving APD to Scotland is merely tinkering with it. We have to get shot of this hated tax right across the country to ensure all of our airports are competing on level terms.

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

Have Liverpool done too much tinkering and tailoring with the system?

A creative invitation is a combination of materials and context that intrigue children with a suggestion of play.

The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.

If you tell somebody something, you've forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves.

The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities.