Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

My actual passion is getting things done.

I'm the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.

You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

I don't think anyone knows anything and I don't trust people who say that they do. Don't give me a plan, give me action.

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

You told us over and over that you don’t think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you’d probably die before you’d think to rip pages out of one to start a fire. Am I right? Well, get over it already. Better to be warm then well-read.

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

I don't wase time thinking, 'Am I doing it right?' I say, 'Am I doing it?'

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

We need a doer, not a talker.

I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.

Speak little, do much.

No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.