To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.
I live on an old tugboat but feel that having a submarine would be the next level.
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.
I'm kind of a challenge junkie, I think.
I don't believe in prayer, I'm a pretty hardcore agnostic.
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.
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 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.
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 wanted to see if I could make a living off of having fun.
I would much rather be acknowledged for the work that I do rather than being a woman doing the type of work I do.
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.
Somewhere along the way I realized that I enjoyed making useless things a lot more than well-finished products.
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.
People should be faced with losing everything a little bit more often because it really helps put a lot of things into perspective.
Haircuts are never good. You always end up being unhappy.
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.
On my bad days, sitting down and meditating was the last thing I wanted to do.
I try to view my YouTube channel as a logbook of personal interests.
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.
