Quotes About Ingenuity

Creativity is an infinite resource. The more you spend,the more you have.

principio sencillo: Si no puedes ser el primero en una categoría, crea una nueva en la que puedas ser el primero.

Los trabajos interesantes son los que creas tú.

Si os diera cien millones de dólares, ¿qué crearíais? Algo que no tuviera ningún sentido que otros copiaran".

Do not work harder when the solution is working smarter. I

I think we need to teach kids two things: 1) how to lead, and 2) how to solve interesting problems. Because the fact is, there are plenty of countries on Earth where there are people who are willing to be obedient and work harder for less money than us.

There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan. Every dollar, we used very carefully.

And by "unreasonably effective," I mean something quite specific: Something is unreasonably effective if it seems to be useful outside the scope of its assumptions, outside the scope of the context in/for which it was developed.

The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." –Oscar Wilde Irish writer, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray

A problem is a terrible thing to waste." This is highly related to the "scratch your own itch" thread that pops up throughout this book. Peter expands: "I think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

you put creativity in everything, everything becomes available to you.' . . .

There is very little luck involved. Winning your great job is about hard work, stamina, grit, ingenuity, and timing.

he explains the secret of his success this way: "There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan.

Sometimes, whether in the world of fire-making or cooking, finding the path of least resistance is as easy as Googling "backward," "upside-down," or "reverse," plus whatever skill you're deconstructing.

Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

There was a time when our minds were always on a roll. We used boxes and sticks to become astronauts and artists. We created fantasy characters and outrageous worlds. We drew whimsical pictures and cooked up wild ideas. We were complete originals.

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

My life as an author has always been about brilliant, odd people.

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

I didn't own a guitar when I was in the Germs. I would just borrow one from the opening band.

I like to create openings.

Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.