Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Simone Giertz - Page 2

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.

The way I approach my insecurities is by making sure I'm the first person laughing at myself.

I really dislike soup, especially pumpkin soup.

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

I'm good at pitching my weaknesses as strengths.

It'd be really neat if I wasn't a Darwin Award winner.

I just like having creative solutions to tricky situations.

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've always avoided making being a woman my main asset and unique selling point. If it is then you'll start seeing other women as competition, and that's the last thing you need when entering a very male-dominated field.

Programming is a pretty tricky thing to start learning. You need to combine it with comedy to get a wider audience.

In some ways, it's good for company culture to build things that are intended to fail because it creates an environment where it's OK to fail. A lot of people are very scared of that, especially in the workplace.

I'm still sometimes convinced that I'm just making all of this up and I'm actually somewhere drooling in a straight jacket. This success is such a bizarre thing.

I'm not very into politics but I love watching shows like 'Last Week Tonight' - people come for the comedy and they stay for the interesting questions.

Adding comedy into what I do is just my natural approach. It's how I approach anything that I find tricky or daunting, because it's like putting syrup in your medicine, and it just makes it easier to go down.

I built a lot of stuff as a kid. But I was not interested in tech, I thought it wasn't really for me.