Simone Giertz

I don't want to be brain tumor girl. I don't want this to be my thing.

— Simone Giertz

Burn out is such a real thing, especially when you are enjoying your job.

— Simone Giertz

In some ways, it's good for company culture to build things that are intended to fail because it creates an environment where…

— Simone Giertz

Adding comedy into what I do is just my natural approach. It's how I approach anything that I find tricky or daunting,…

— Simone Giertz

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

— Simone Giertz

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is…

— Simone Giertz

Electronics are getting more and more accessible now - you don't have to be an engineer to start building things.

— Simone Giertz

To me, the goal of building useless and ridiculous robots is more - I mean, in some way, it's like a personal…

— Simone Giertz

Having the brain tumor, coming out of surgery and going through all of that, you're like, I am never going to feel…

— Simone Giertz

I didn't know how to necessarily make good robots and I was scared of failing to make good robots, so I thought…

— Simone Giertz

Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist.

— Simone Giertz

I think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal.…

— Simone Giertz

Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy…

— Simone Giertz

A lot of people just write off the projects that I do as stupid, but they obviously aren't, the ideas aren't the…

— Simone Giertz

As for making video comedy, pretty much anyone can do it. When I got started, I just filmed it with my webcam…

— Simone Giertz

In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip…

— Simone Giertz

If I'm not around, it's not because I don't want to be, it's because I can't.

— Simone Giertz

I wanted to see if I could make a living off of having fun.

— Simone Giertz

I don't have cancer, I just have a tumour.

— Simone Giertz

I'm starting to feel like I can actually figure out how stuff works. I can actually pick stuff apart and have a…

— Simone Giertz

When I started building things, obviously I was pretty bad at it. You cant be good at it from the start, and…

— Simone Giertz

I love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.

— Simone Giertz

It's all men on my channel. All my comment sections are engineers at Google.

— Simone Giertz

I try to view my YouTube channel as a logbook of personal interests.

— Simone Giertz

If I find something is interesting, there are probably other people who find it interesting... if I'm into what I'm doing, there…

— Simone Giertz