David Harbour

I was very resistant to my intellectualism for a while. I do start with an intellectual idea for a character. A lot of the times, it'll be the opposite of what I feel like is on the page, or it'll be just an idea that I read in a psychology textbook or in a philosophy book. I'll apply something to it that I can start to tinker with.

American Actor

Mike Flanagan

I forget who said it, but there's that saying: 'Films are never finished, they're abandoned.' There's always something you think you can improve on, but I don't think you should try. George Lucas started doing it, and didn't stop. You can tinker indefinitely, and it doesn't necessarily make it better.

American Director

Beth Simone Noveck

Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.

American Public Servant

Deepak Chopra

From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.

American Speaker

Johnathon Schaech

Dark Circles' is a great relationship/character piece and also a horror film. It tinkered with the genre, which I loved. I was sick of seeing the same thing, sick of people just trying to get a movie made.

Drew Scott

Building and tinkering were such a huge part of our childhood, whether we were trying to entertain ourselves as kids, helping our parents out on the ranch, or getting creative with school projects.

Canadian Actor

Ravi Shastri

I am more into fine-tuning, mindsets, and how you play the game. Very rarely will I go and tinker with a player unless I think it is needed.

Indian Coach

Woody Norris

I wasn't much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.

American Inventor

Lonnie Johnson

Francois Jacob

French Scientist

Tinker as a noun describing a person often feels historical or outdated.

Old-fashioned Term

A tinker traditionally repaired metal household items, not everything.

Specific Skill

Tinkering as a verb suggests informal, often unskilled adjustment or repairs.

Casual Improvements

Tinkering can imply making changes that are not required, out of curiosity or boredom.

Not Always Necessary

Tinkering can indicate a relaxing, leisurely activity without serious intent.

Leisure Activity

Tinker as a noun can refer to a social identity, often linked with historical trades and lifestyle.

Cultural Identity

Use carefully, as 'tinker' can be considered derogatory or insensitive when referring to people.

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 That was when I was reading the meter every week. And my life changed, because I started doing experiments and seeing what made a difference. My gas consumption plummeted, because I started tinkering with the thermostat and the timing on the heating system, and I knocked more than half off my gas bills. There's a similar story for my electricity consumption,

David Mackay: A reality...

 There are some secrets here, and they're really important if we want to solve climate change. Let me give you two of the secrets. First, you have to go where the tons are. Follow the tons. Follow the tons. And this is such an obvious idea, but it's amazing how many policies tinker around the edges. I call it green paint.

How to decarbonize the...

 the meter every week and my life changed because I'd started doing experiments and seeing what made a difference and my gas consumption plummeted because I started tinkering with the thermostat and the timing on the heating system and I knocked more than a half off my gas bills there's a similar story for my

A reality check on...

 Why don't we just change the context in which the poor live? Or, going back to our computer Why keep tinkering around with the software when we can easily solve the problem by installing some extra memory instead? At that point, Professor Shafir responded with a blank look. And after a few seconds, he said,

Poverty isn't a lack of...

 cellular material of viruses bacteria and plants and animals equals and should there be different bars for tinkering with various life-forms for the sake of research versus education versus entertainment and if there are more bacterial cells in our body than human cells and if we can grow human cells in

When technology...

 regular people including me and my brothers gawking at the television in our living room cousteau helped us see the hidden world inside the ocean and realized that we had to protect it none of that could have happened without an engineer tinkering and discovering a better way to capture those images

The Real-Life MacGyver...

 I feel it's very important to talk about a specific crop and a specific product, and think about the needs of the consumer. So part of what's happening here is that there's a mental model in a lot of people that nature is nature, and it's pure and pristine, and to tinker with it is Frankensteinian.

Pamela Ronald: The case...

 So everything we've been talking about today is based on this philosophically charged principle of neuroscience that the mind, with its seemingly mysterious properties, is actually made of physical stuff that we can tinker with. And for me personally, I see a world where we can reactivate

Steve Ramirez and Xu...

 who are passionately working on a product that they truly believe makes the world a better place, but as long as the company continues to merely tinker around the margins of content policy and moderation, as opposed to considering how the entire machine is designed and monetized,

Dear Facebook, this is...

 rearranged center stage the mossy pillar is surrounded by constantly evolving design by continually tinkering with his

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