John Sulston Quotes

I've always been interested in mechanical things. I think I must have been heavily influenced by my father, who is also very good with his hands. He liked to build things. I always loved to watch him do it, and I loved to build things on my own.

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative.

I am a maker of useful things.

I like to build things. I like to do things.

I'm a DIY kinda guy.

I enjoy building more than managing.

Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.

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

I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.

I have no interest in a guy who doesn't know the right end of a screwdriver.

Brazilians are very creative, not only in football but in life as well.

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

Building and tinkering were such a huge part of our childhood, whether we were trying to entertain ourselves as kids, helping our parents out on the ranch, or getting creative with school projects.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that we need, we try to make it ourselves out of whatever is available, whether that's rock or wood or ore or DNA.

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

I get my by any means on, whenever there's a drought get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm.