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

    Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”
  • 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.

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

    Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey
  • There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

    War   Mean   Self  
    "Notes on the Way". Time and Tide Magazine, June 10, 1934.
  • Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

    Edmund Blunden (1930). “Leigh Hunt: a biography”, Archon Books
  • 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.

    Order   Psychics   Cake  
  • Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected.

  • 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.

  • We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.

  • 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.

    Running   Order   Space  
    "NASAWatch.com Interview with NASA Astronauts Fincke and Chiao aboard the International Space Station". Interview with Keith Cowing, www.spaceref.com. October 19, 2004.
  • We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

    Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.10, Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • There are lots of people out there who prefer tinkering to winning - it gives them a good excuse.

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

  • Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

    Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • 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 imagining that I'd be performing music for people, that's for sure.

    Crazy   Drawing   People  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.

    Girl   Technology   Games  
    "Beth Simone Noveck, Former U.S Deputy Chief Technology Officer, On The Tech Trends That Worry Her Most". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.
  • I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.

  • Basement?' Hamish cried, then glanced at his brother. 'You hear this fellow? He thinks we can just go on down to the furnace and start tinkering?' Angus laughed. 'He probably wouldn't care at all if the whole place went boom, he wouldn't.' At this the guard bristled and stood up even straighter. 'Now see here---' 'No, you see, my good man. Out here, see, we've got snow. So in there, I'd bet, you've got heat. And where there's heat there's gas; and where there's gas there's...' Angus trailed off while his brother said, 'boom.

    Brother   Men   Thinking  
  • 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.

    "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.
  • 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.

    "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.
  • If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

    Land   Cogs   Tinkering  
    Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.108, Oxford University Press
  • Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.

    Real   Blessed   Eye  
    "More Than a Savior: When Jesus Calls You Friend". Book by Robert Crosby, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.
  • 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.

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

  • Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

  • The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

    Ignorance   Men   Animal  
    Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.108, Oxford University Press
  • Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and enjoyable for one reader as the next. But novels and other book-length narratives are great rambling things that always contain some flaws. For works of any length, there comes a point when your continued tinkering won't improve the whole, but will just trade one set of problems for another.

    Art   Book   Perfect  
  • I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.

    Errors   Skills   People  
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.25, Random House
  • By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.

    Animal   Men   Odds  
  • (In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

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