Simone Giertz Quotes

My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I'd take it apart and reassemble it. At 16, I really understood the architecture of things.

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

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

I like fixing things.

Appreciating complexity while searching through its thickets to find essential factors leads to understanding.

When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.

In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.

The biggest challenges are fixing the problems, to put all the puzzles together.

I'm really not handy. I'm not good at things like changing a light bulb. If something is broken, the chances of me being able to fix it are slim to none.

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 was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.

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.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

Troubleshooting a wiring problem is a soul-killing experience.

Oh, I wish I could tell you I was a Mr. Fix-It, but I am not that kind of guy. I get frustrated so easily.

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

I also know that I am not a great technician.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

I like to figure things out and solve problems.