Simone Giertz

“When I started building things, obviously I was pretty bad at it. You cant be good at it from the start, and I decided to just embrace that, roll with it, and turn it into something funny.”

“I try to view my YouTube channel as a logbook of personal interests.”

“I've, in so many ways, done way more than I ever expected out of life.”

“Having the brain tumor, coming out of surgery and going through all of that, you're like, I am never going to feel the same and I have this new perspective on life. So much gratitude, life just feels like this enormous treasure. Then that kind of just falls away and you're back being grumpy about having an early morning meeting.”

“Electronics are getting more and more accessible now - you don't have to be an engineer to start building things.”

“I got one comment that I had a lot of double chins. I just laughed at it. I do have a double chin, so that's legit.”

“I think as soon as you're a woman, or any minority doing something, you automatically become a representative for it, and I think a lot of brilliant women's interviews are being wasted on talking about what it's like being a woman.”

“I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.”

“I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up.”

“We're kind of a guinea pig generation.”

“I love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.”

“If I find something is interesting, there are probably other people who find it interesting... if I'm into what I'm doing, there will be other people who are into it, too.”

“Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.”

“I'm good at pitching my weaknesses as strengths.”

“My goal is to never own a gas car.”

“Somewhere along the way I realized that I enjoyed making useless things a lot more than well-finished products.”

“It's all men on my channel. All my comment sections are engineers at Google.”

“A lot of my self-worth is based on what I do. And if you take that away I just mope.”

“I think I've kind of carved out a sweet spot for myself by combining science and comedy.”

“I'm kind of a challenge junkie, I think.”