Markus Persson Quotes

My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I'd take it apart and reassemble it. At 16, I really understood the architecture of things.

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.

I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.

If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

I just like to build things and do things.

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

I like fixing things.

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

I enjoy working on anything mechanical.

I loved to take things apart and put them back together. I loved the way things work.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

The difference between a hacker and consumer is a consumer says, "I wish it would work this way." A hacker says, "I've got a screwdriver and a few minutes.

I have a fondness for technology. It's great to spend hours puttering around with mechanical things gotten from junkyards and visualizing what their use might be. Especially if you come across a gadget or tool and you don't know what it is and you try to figure it out. I'm fascinated by processes, whatever they might be.

My dad used to give me old electrical equipment that didn't work anymore, and I'd put things together. I think that's why I like to mix things that don't belong.

Even when I was young, I would build things with Lego or make 'robots' out of cereal boxes - long before I learned metalwork. The desire to build was always there.

Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.

I've always, since I was a kid, been interested in how things work.

I learned to not be afraid to fix things that break.