Tory housing policy is the epitome of tinkering with the deckchairs while the ship is listing.

I usually just write a song and record it that day, and then that's kind of it. I'm not very good at going back and editing and tinkering it. It's pretty immediate.

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.

I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.

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.

The age of mass politics is one that demands radical solutions rather than tinkering.

America's tax code is beyond repair. Tinkering with it won't work. The only hope is a bold tax-reform plan that will liberate our nation from the slow-growth status quo and jump-start a new era of American prosperity and growth.

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

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.

I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.

We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of organisms and biological things that wouldn't be here were it not for us.

Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.

'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.

I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.

There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, and (allowing for some tinkering around the edges) it will happen.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

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

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.