Quotes About Ingenuity

Theodore Roosevelt offered this bit of Stoic-inspired advice: "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.

You may outgun me, outman me, and outspend me. But I'm a writer. I will outplot you.

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

The street finds its own uses for things.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of the sloth, not suitable for preservation, roasting bits of fat on the coals and boiling the head and bones into a broth; and after swallowing the liquid I crunched the bones and sucked the marrow...

Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.

How to Live Well on Nothing a Year.

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

My pencil and I are more clever than I.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

After all, as we're constantly reminded, the Internet has unleashed all sorts of creative vision and collaborative ingenuity. What it has really brought about is a kind of bizarre inversion of ends and means, where creativity is marshaled to the service of administration rather than the other way around.

When one of the children of his friend Harvey Firestone boasted that he had some savings in the bank, Ford lectured the child. That money was idle. What the child should do, Ford said, was spend the money on tools. "Make something," he admonished. "Create something.

Finding a needle in a haystack was not as hard as it sounded, if you had a thread tied to the needle.

For written messages, the Chinese would often write on exceedingly thin silk or paper, which they rolled into a ball and covered with wax. The messenger hid the wax ball, or "la wan," somewhere about his person, or in his rectum, or he sometimes swallowed it.

be creative, adapt quickly, and rely on your wits instead of automated tools.

If what you've done is stupid, but it works..then it really isn't all that stupid.

There is no off position on the genius

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

The human brain is the god of technological innovation.

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.