Tinkering School Quotes & Sayings

The Tinkering School. More of a lab than a school, this summer program, created by computer scientist Gever Tulley, lets children from seven to seventeen play around with interesting stuff and build cool things. — Daniel H. Pink

Python language is one example. As we noted above, it is also heavily used for mathematical and scientific papers, and will probably dominate that niche for some years yet. 18.3.3 — Eric S. Raymond

I decided that I needed to see my replacement for closure. It was crazy really, but we are all entitled to a little bit of stalking. — Tarryn Fisher

Kids are starting to dress the same, listen to the same music. I look at their Tumblrs and they're all into the same things. — Chaz Bundick

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. — Quincy Jones

What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.] — Horace

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want. — Kevin DeYoung

I agree insofar as we eat too much meat. We're eating about 200 pounds per person per year. That's about 9 ounces a day. That's probably more than is good for us and it's certainly more than is good for the environment. — Michael Pollan

I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of. — Gever Tulley

No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit. — Quentin Crisp

Glowing screens, increasingly foldable, portable, companionable, anticipating any possible question the human brain might generate. — Jhumpa Lahiri