Quotes from Simone Giertz

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Finding a better way is all I do.

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

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

We're kind of a guinea pig generation.

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 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.

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.

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'm good at pitching my weaknesses as strengths.

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

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

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 use humor as a way to digest anything.

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

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.