Hilary Mason Quotes

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

I often get asked if I think I'm ever going to build something useful, and maybe someday I will.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

I'm an inventor.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

I like creating new things.

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.

It's easier to destroy than it is to create, but I've always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.

I like to create new things.