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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
Home
Google
Some
Joined
Robots
Always
Built
Tinkering
Just
Hobby
Stopped
After
Working
Meantime
Farms
Playing
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul R. Ehrlich
First
Rule
Parts
Intelligent
Tinkering
Save
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
Aldo Leopold
First
Every
Precaution
Intelligent
Tinkering
Wheel
Keep
Cog
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
Me
School
Band
Everything
Out
Stayed
Percussion
Like
Around
Got
Came
Forever
Hit
Tinkering
Just
Different
After
After-School
While
Choir
Bricks
Different Things
Things
Ton
Played
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
Physics
Engineering
Thinking
Kid
Would
Physical
About
Call
Opposed
Than
Tinkering
Interested
Less
Now
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.
Natalie Cole
Home
Listening
Sit
Living
Musician
TV
Records
He
Gleason
Buddies
Liked
Around
Boxing
George
His
Jackie
Tinkering
Orchestra
Loved
Room
Dad
Baseball
Living Room
Watch
Oscar
Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.
Jens Martin Skibsted
Long
Isolation
Gone
Design
Long Gone
Powerful
Tinkering
Sketching
Growth
Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.
Gever Tulley
Problems
Understanding
Difficult
Unknowns
Our
Way
Wrapping
Heads
Around
Tinkering
Them
'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
Result
Inspiration
New
Messing
Years
Up
Five
Did
York
Tinkering
New York
Flash
Grew
Experimenting
Humans
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
You
Cake
Psychic
Before
Lunch
Consider
Out
Eating
Haul
Menu
Open
Budget
Calculator
Cheeseburger
Intact
Tinkering
Order
Start
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
Work
Hope
Prosperity
Liberate
Will
Nation
Our
Status
Status Quo
Only
New
Beyond
New Era
Repair
Era
America
American
Tinkering
Tax
Quo
Tax Code
Plan
Bold
Code
Growth
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.
David Hanson
Science
Kid
Science Fiction
Always
Tinkering
Fiction
Loved
Things
As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.
Mike Schultz
Kid
Machinery
Rural
Area
Parts
Always
Up
Tinkering
Growing
Growing Up
Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
Ian Hacking
History
World
Mind
Looking
Experiment
Radical
Changed
Changes
Our
Way
Telling
Some
Followed
About
Insofar
Had
He
Terms
Talking
Sciences
Said
Scientists
Were
Intellectual
Very
Tinkering
Often
The History Of
Process
Theory
Incidents
Many
Whom
Spectacular
Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.
Eric Roberts
You
College
Some
Know
Around
Yeah
Been
Years
Friends
Tinkering
Just
Fun
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
Giles Foden
Spent
Particular
Making
Tinkering
Childhood
Used
Radio
Electronic
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
Time
You
Build
Spend
Once
See
Go
Ferrari
Model
Tinkering
Straight
Next
Next Thing
Thing
I wasn't much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.
Woody Norris
Busy
Too
Girlfriends
Tinkering
Much
Garage
I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.
Pat Mastelotto
Love
Tribe
Beat
Like
Box
Boxes
Up
Tinkering
Reason
Using
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
Time
Needs
Me
Virginia
Approach
System
More
Studies
Another
Real
Reform
Fixed
Send
Real Reform
Any
Tinkering
Tax
Tax System
Confuses
Act
Now