Tony Fadell Quotes

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

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

As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid.

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

I like fixing things.

I like to build things. I like to do things.

I enjoy building more than managing.

What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

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.

When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went.

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'

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.

I've always been interested in mechanical things. I think I must have been heavily influenced by my father, who is also very good with his hands. He liked to build things. I always loved to watch him do it, and I loved to build things on my own.

I just like building stuff.

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

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.

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

In Scotland, I have a huge barn full of woodworking tools. I love working with my hands. I basically just make myself bleed a lot. I'm very accident-prone.

I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.