Grant Imahara Quotes

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

I love building things like robots, toys, and all of that.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

Everything that wasn't invented by God is invented by an engineer.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.

If I could do anything, I'd be an engineer of some sort. I used to build robots.

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

I'm an inventor.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If you're into electronics, get an Arduino.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.