Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Simone Giertz

Reddit is, it's like a tiger. It's great if it's your friend, but it can also eat you alive.

I'm a part of a new generation of drivers that will only drive electric.

To me, the goal of building useless and ridiculous robots is more - I mean, in some way, it's like a personal goal because I think it's really fun, and I think having fun is super important to create things.

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

The wake up machine was actually pretty painful after some time.

I build a robot version of Jenna Marbles' dog, Kermit. It turned out a little bit worse than I had anticipated.

My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.

I spent every day of third grade wearing a glittery purple cowboy hat.

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.

I don't want to be brain tumor girl. I don't want this to be my thing.

If I'm not around, it's not because I don't want to be, it's because I can't.

A lot of people just write off the projects that I do as stupid, but they obviously aren't, the ideas aren't the smartest but I think there definitely is a lot of thought behind it.

I don't believe in prayer, I'm a pretty hardcore agnostic.

Finding a better way is all I do.

The Every Day Calendar is 0% Internet connected, so no apps, WiFi, bluetooth or computer programs are needed to set it up. Just plug it into the wall and you're ready to go.

Career wise, I'm looking into different opportunities to do a TV show, but in some way that's not a goal in itself. To me, the goal is creating content and doing fun stuff that I'm proud to show. I don't want to do a TV show for the sake of doing it.

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.

I really wish this wasn't a thing. But this tumor is a thing. Even though it's not what I would have chosen for myself, that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be all bad. What I keep trying to remind myself is this is one of those things that looks like a really bad thing on the outside but I know too little about life to be sure.

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

We're kind of a guinea pig generation.

I live on an old tugboat but feel that having a submarine would be the next level.

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

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

I wanted to see if I could make a living off of having fun.

I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.

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

Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist.

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

As for making video comedy, pretty much anyone can do it. When I got started, I just filmed it with my webcam and used iMovie to edit the video, which I still use.

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.

I found it was way more fun to build useless stuff.

A lot of people make the mistake of setting the bar too high.

I didn't know how to necessarily make good robots and I was scared of failing to make good robots, so I thought I might as well make bad robots to kind of alleviate the pressure of that.

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

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

When I build for YouTube, there isn't necessarily an end goal. I have an idea of how I want a thing to work, but if it doesn't work that way, I can always adapt the story. The story is the main driver, not the machine.

My top video is probably the wake up machine. And that one was the first one that started going really viral. It's an alarm clock that slaps you in the face with a rubber arm.

I don't have cancer, I just have a tumour.

I set out to make a sandwich using a robot arm. I put a knife at the end of it and tried to make it spread peanut butter over bread. It didn't work so great.

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

Haircuts are never good. You always end up being unhappy.

I want to be an inventor in the real sense.

Getting slapped in the face with a plastic arm to wake up is not as painful as it might look - probably more humiliating than painful really.

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 think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started.

On my bad days, sitting down and meditating was the last thing I wanted to do.

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

There's an incredible amount of people that you can compare yourself with and be like, why am I not doing as well as that person? It's really hard.

I made a toothbrush helmet, which was a skateboard helmet with a robot arm holding a toothbrush. The idea was that it would brush your teeth for you.

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 think people just like seeing failure.

I'm starting to feel like I can actually figure out how stuff works. I can actually pick stuff apart and have a chance of fixing it.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

Burn out is such a real thing, especially when you are enjoying your job.

People should be faced with losing everything a little bit more often because it really helps put a lot of things into perspective.

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

In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.

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

My goal is to never own a gas car.

I would much rather be acknowledged for the work that I do rather than being a woman doing the type of work I do.