Grant Imahara Quotes

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

I think of myself as more of a maker than a thinker.

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

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.

Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

I just like to build things and do things.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

I love creating things. I love making things.

I have a big brother who would make dolls' houses and playhouses and furniture out of wood. He was the one who taught me from such a young age that you could just make something. The physical act of gluing something together was really formative for me.

I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid… I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

My dad used to give me old electrical equipment that didn't work anymore, and I'd put things together. I think that's why I like to mix things that don't belong.

If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage.

It's easier to destroy than it is to create, but I've always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

I enjoy making and creating things.