Simone Giertz Quotes

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

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

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.

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

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

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

Celebrate the excitement of trying build something new and wonderful.

I like building.

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

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.

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

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.

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

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

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.

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

What man can imagine, man can do.

I got no thrill from solving an integral equation, but I did get a thrill from building an exotic piece of equipment that worked.

I liked my father's work. But above all I liked the idea of doing something concrete and useful. Building a house is a metaphor that I like, it's at the core of my life philosophy: starting from the bottom and reaching the top.