Nature Quote by Leroy Chiao

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

— Gever Tulley

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

— Paul R. Ehrlich

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

— Aldo Leopold

That's one of the advantages of being an inventor and tinkerer - I have everything I need to make what I need.

— Lonnie Johnson

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

— Aldo Leopold

Good technology isn't just a matter of mission statements; it can also come from a tinkerer with no specific overriding purpose other than the…

— Bryan Johnson

We're using the space station as a test bed for some of the technologies that are going to enable us to work autonomously in…

— Anne McClain

“We have the technical sophistication of Tinker Toy’s protecting the IoT microcosms of America’s health sector organizations.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote…

— Kathleen Rubins

I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping.

— Rick Steves

One thing to say about doing maintenance in space - it is difficult because the parts and pieces float away. You end up using…

— Sunita Williams

The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.

— Carroll Smith