“Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.”
Charles de Lint
“To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering”
Aldo Leopold
“Like Banbury tinkers that in mending one hole make three”
Proverb
“To be modern is to tinker with the incurable.”
Emile M. Cioran
“We will not stand by and let the administration tinker with retirement security. Many Americans have spent their whole lives working for it. So many Americans count on it to make ends meet.”
Wade Henderson
“We have to review if there's a need to tinker with our present lineup. If there is, we need to get the right combinations quick to find the answer to this slide.”
Yeng Guiao
“The concept is that they give you (only) what you want. The old days of tinkering with your PC is drawing to a close, and what you get is pretty good.”
Roger Kay