“If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.”
“If you tell somebody something, you've forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves.”
Source: Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff
“From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively not by removing ourselves from the world to ponder and theorize, but rather by getting our hands dirty and making careful observations of real stuff. In short, we have learned primarily by tinkering.”
Source: Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff
“he connected the mechanism for the clock to a mechanical ballerina,and the toy danced uninterruptedly to the rhythm of her own music for three days.That discovery excited him so much more than any of his other hair-brained undertakings”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities.”
“A creative invitation is a combination of materials and context that intrigue children with a suggestion of play.”
Source: Tinkerlab: A Hands-On Guide for Little Inventors
“Like most visionary utopias, though. IDN (Integrated Data Network) was never to be. Perhaps it was simply too ambitious a project: infrastructures seldom respond to a single vision or a master plan, as Paul Edwards (2010) writes, and conjuring up a platform that would serve the entire marketplace was an almost Quixotic task. Infrastructures emerge not through planning and calculated foresight, but through the meandering paths of history, in the mangle of making, tinkering, and wrestling with the obduracy of organizations, practices, and their installed base. The system eventually introduced for Big Bang reflected this fragility and contingency of infrastructures: it was the creative result of reshaping legacy devices into a system that did the job for the time being. A band-aid. A product of creative, recombinant bricolage.”
Source: Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets
“On the left, in the fragile category, the mistakes are rare and large when they occur, hence irreversible; to the right the mistakes are small and benign, even reversible and quickly overcome. They are also rich in information. So a certain system of tinkering and trial and error would have the attributes of antifragility.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“The more you tinker, the easier it becomes. You get used to remixing and improving your projects. You do research and get excited about what to try next. You get inspired by other people’s work. You might fall in love with an idea or get obsessed with finding the answer to a question. You’ll discover you don’t know all the answers.”
Source: The Tinkering Workshop: Explore, Invent & Build with Everyday Materials; 100 Hands-On STEAM Projects
“De kist stond op het dressoir op een wit gehaakt kleedje waar met verjaardagen kaasstengels op stonden, nootjes, glaasjes met bowl, en net als bij feestjes stonden daar nu ook steeds mensen in een kringetje omheen, met hun neuzen in zakdoeken geduwd of in andermans nek. Ze zeiden mooie dingen over mijn broer, terwijl de dood lelijk was en zo taai als een verloren tijgernootje dat we dagen na een verjaardag ergens achter een stoel vonden, of onder de televisiekast.”
Source: The Discomfort of Evening