Tinkering beats competent, which will make you happier.

I was always tinkering around with stuff but nothing serious at the time. I was doing animations and drawing like crazy, but I wasn't…

— Chad VanGaalen

You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a…

— Robin Sloan

Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions…

— James MacGregor Burns

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will…

— Frank Chodorov

I think the federal Liberals' micro-tinkering is not causing any kind of upsurge in public confidence. The challenge for Conservatives is how to not…

— Preston Manning

The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

Devolving APD to Scotland is merely tinkering with it. We have to get shot of this hated tax right across the country to ensure…

— Brian Donohoe

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer…

— Leroy Chiao

At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs…

— Rick Springfield

“he connected the mechanism for the clock to a mechanical ballerina,and the toy danced uninterruptedly to the rhythm of her own music for three…

— Gabriel García Márquez

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as…

— Aldo Leopold

Our problems are both acute and chronic, yet all we hear from those in positions of leadership are the same tired proposals for more…

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Edmund Blunden

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

— Gever Tulley

“Like most visionary utopias, though. IDN (Integrated Data Network) was never to be. Perhaps it was simply too ambitious a project: infrastructures seldom respond…

— Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra