Quotes from Simone Giertz

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

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

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.

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

My goal is to never own a gas car.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

I just like having creative solutions to tricky situations.

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