Alex Hirsch Quotes

I don't know anything about cars. I can promise you that.

I think the car world can be quite intimidating sometimes. If people don't know too much about cars they often don't feel welcome - and that's a shame and I don't think that should be the case.

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

As a kid, I had my head under the hood of a car, either an old Ford or a Chevrolet, just learning about it so if anything happened, I could repair it.

I've always had good connections with cars and always knew how to fix them, so I didn't have trouble with breakdowns.

We girls should have to change a tire or take a 'change your oil' class in high school instead of taking home economics, because we'd benefit from that.

I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single car dealer; I knew every style of every year.

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders.

I'm not very good with cars. They rebel against me.

I'm seeing more and more people of color do what I do as showrunners, and that's so great. I would love to get to the point where we don't have to talk about it anymore.

Our dad is not one to impart advice or gloat or reminisce about the good old days. But he's a race car guy, been a car guy forever, and he always wants to talk about cars.

Sorry, never been a car guy.

Of course there should be training sessions open to the public, but not always.

I feel like I've widened the interest in the automotive world.

What people are going to see on my platform is cars from a different perspective - so that I'm still speaking the same language to the general public. I don't ever want to get too technical.

The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

Some people put more into their cars than they put into their relationships.