Tim Allen Quotes

I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

What we need is to use what we have.

Sometimes technique works better than a whole lot of other things.

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

I loved my computer; it's a tool. A tool increases your mechanical advantages. It allows you to use your strengths and talents to greater advantage, and that's what tools do, and that's what my computer does for me. It's not my toy, it's my tool.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

I don’t give a damn where an idea comes from. If it’s good, use it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

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

Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.

I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

Necessity does everything well.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

I just try to put as much logic into what I'm doing as possible and try to have fun with it.

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.

Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Sensible people find nothing useless.