William Gurstelle Quotes

You get energy from other people, so hang out with energetic people.

I specialize in science and history, with a special emphasis on including do-it-yourself projects in the mix. My dozen or so books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. I’m also a contributing editor at Popular Science and at Make Magazine.

I always have a ton of projects in mind. On my ToodleDo list, I divide projects into those I’m actively working on, those I’m not doing but believe I will do, and those that sound good, but who knows if I’ll ever get to them.

There are interesting scientific and historical connections between these things that I just love.

I travel internationally a lot and I have a hard time sleeping and staying awake normally after crossing multiple time zones, especially going east. I’ve tried light therapy but not found it too helpful.

I’ve seen Leonardo Da Vinci notebooks which are filled with tiny, messy scrawls written in mirror image across the page. I’d love to know how he kept all his projects going at once.

Some things are better than other things: Google, Gmail, my vintage Montgomery Wards socket set (30+ years, still going strong), my Estwing framing hammer, and my Dremel rotary tool.

There are a lot of ideas I’ve had that I originally was quite taken with, but over time, I lost steam. They stay on my list, but between me and you, I’m probably never going to do them.

Yeah, it’s a weird little niche, but by God, it’s my niche.

Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world’s most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!

I get some of my best ideas while out walking.

I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.