Quotes About Ingenuity

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

Chance created the situation; genius made use of it.

If necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is the father. The Einstein summation convention is the offspring of this happy marriage.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

If life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Then... try to find someone to whom life has handed vodka...

Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything.

She was used to doing a lot with a little. Now that she had a lot, she was going to work wonders with it. And she did.

Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything. "But

Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have.

The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

I have found from experience that it is often interesting and useful to start from the edges and work inward - another flaw of mine. I seldom approach things directly. I would have made a great moth.

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

Somewhere along the way I realized that I enjoyed making useless things a lot more than well-finished products.

Most photo apps before asked something of the users. They said, 'You produce, act, and perform.' 'Instagram' said, 'Let us take care of the secret sauce.'

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.