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Then I just started tinkering and learning about how the world works, which was inspired kind of by the idea of the Great Recession from the housing collapse. I was learning about things, i started making videos on YouTube showing people what I was tinkering with and what I was coming up with. It turned into a big enough movement that I shut down my real estate business, I quit the airlines, and now it's all YouTube. – Grant Thompson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
A lot of countries extract monetary authority by tinkering with their currencies, if you all the sudden have a stable alternative though Facebooks Calibra, that kind of undermines your authority there. – Nick Pappageorge	Found on CNN 4 years ago
He's tinkering because he knows he cannot question one of the founding principles of the EU which is freedom of movement. – John Baron	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I was tinkering around in the off-season and I eventually found something that feels good. I hit a couple of very good putts today and it seems to be working, changing to the short putter, I didn't really feel like I was that uncomfortable. I just stuck to it and trusted it. – Shaun Norris	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is tinkering around the edges and it does up America's role and it will allow America to go to the Iraqis and go to the Russians and everybody and say we are doing more, but it doesn't fundamentally change anything. – Joshua Landis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is tinkering around the edges and it does up America's role and it will allow America to go to the Iraqis and go to the Russians and everybody and say we are doing more, but it doesn't fundamentally change anything, this is more of ... what Obama has been doing for five years, which is trying to keep his critics on their heels by doing the minimum amount necessary while at the same time making sure that America does not get sucked into (Syria). – Joshua Landis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There is a huge, huge opportunity for young people to be reached by these campaigns, because altering those (Iowa) numbers even just slightly, especially when you're talking about the difference between first and second or second and third, you could alter the whole balance of the election by just tinkering with those few votes. – Alex Smith	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is not a time for tinkering; it is a time for transformation. – Ban Ki-moon	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts. – Paul Erlich	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Then I just started tinkering and learning about how the world works, which was inspired kind of by the idea of the Great Recession from the housing collapse. I was learning about things, i started making videos on YouTube showing people what I was tinkering with and what I was coming up with. It turned into a big enough movement that I shut down my real estate business, I quit the airlines, and now it's all YouTube.

– Grant Thompson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A lot of countries extract monetary authority by tinkering with their currencies, if you all the sudden have a stable alternative though Facebooks Calibra, that kind of undermines your authority there.

– Nick Pappageorge

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He's tinkering because he knows he cannot question one of the founding principles of the EU which is freedom of movement.

– John Baron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was tinkering around in the off-season and I eventually found something that feels good. I hit a couple of very good putts today and it seems to be working, changing to the short putter, I didn't really feel like I was that uncomfortable. I just stuck to it and trusted it.

– Shaun Norris

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

– Joshua Landis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is tinkering around the edges and it does up America's role and it will allow America to go to the Iraqis and go to the Russians and everybody and say we are doing more, but it doesn't fundamentally change anything, this is more of ... what Obama has been doing for five years, which is trying to keep his critics on their heels by doing the minimum amount necessary while at the same time making sure that America does not get sucked into (Syria).

– Joshua Landis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is a huge, huge opportunity for young people to be reached by these campaigns, because altering those (Iowa) numbers even just slightly, especially when you're talking about the difference between first and second or second and third, you could alter the whole balance of the election by just tinkering with those few votes.

– Alex Smith

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is not a time for tinkering; it is a time for transformation.

– Ban Ki-moon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.

– Paul Erlich

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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