Ian Hart Quotes

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

My dad was an electrical engineer.

All over the US, there is a need to teach young people to, really, get them out in the backyard, building treehouses, fixing bicycles, because you become a better, more well-rounded, Renaissance personality if you actually know how to do things with your hands. If you can fix the screen door or replace your old garbage disposal, even change the tire on a car, a lot of people don't even know how to do that. We're literally running out of people who know how to do those things, the essential things like plumbing, carpentry, stone masonry, we're literally running out of them.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

I know everything that you can do with digital processing and digital editing inside and out, but I absolutely refuse to push the buttons and don't even want to know how to load and unload the files.

I enjoy learning technical details.

I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.

I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.

My brother Van got the computer first and showed me what it was like to edit video. I definitely credit Van with turning me onto filmmaking.

I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.

As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.

I'm not technical.

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

I've been using a computer for quite some time, and I don't understand everything.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.

I'm very much a technical person.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.