Quotes About Ingenuity

The theory that languages are tools used for particular purposes, sometimes for many different purposes, means that extinct languages belong neither in a museum of art nor in a museum of natural history. Tools are meant to be surpassed by better tools. Once they are, they should be preserved in a museum of technology, of human ingenuity, of the cultural past.

Genius is not about conforming to societal norms, but about breaking free from them and forging new paths.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. —Aristotle

They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind. So I left 'em sweating and stealing, a year and a half behind.

If life gives you lemons - make grapejuice. Then sit back and let people wonder how you did it.

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadores came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, 'I swallowed it. So sue me.

There are no rules when it comes to survival.

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Be it in you, or around you, harness genius.

Geniuses' steps take you higher than talent's leaps.

Your mind is more creative than any machine.

If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented to perform in the place of real money.

Creativity—that is, inventing your way out of a problem—is definitely the better stance.

Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.

Over twenty men died during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, Dr Lynch. Does anyone regret that? No, all anyone sees is a marvel of its time, a great achievement in human ingenuity. So it will be here. This place will be beyond great. It will be the envy of the entire world.

The passage revolved around arguably the first black ops mission in recorded literature. Odysseus is trapped in the cave of Polyphemus. Faced with certain death, he pioneers an escape through a textbook act of misinformation, lying his way to freedom.

But, even granted that doubts, raised in the course of time against the tenants of the Christian faith, have long since robbed you of faith in the immortality of your spirit, you have nevertheless left one tenant undisturbed, and still ingenuously adhere to the one truth, that the spirit is your better part, and that the spiritual has greater claims on you than anything else

I've invented it, because there is no other word that celebrates the genius that is me.

A clever quote opens new paths in the minds of the clever!

Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!

I was at my best when I was backed into a corner. Like a cornered rat I had to somehow jump out of it. I would never surrender. Carl knew he would never get the same answer twice, and I loved to surprise him. Carl: Who is the favorite of all your girlfriends of all time? Mel: Shirley. Carl: What was so special about Shirley? Mel: Her friend Leila. Carl hit the floor.

I caught her one day eating a bee. When she realized I was watching, she spit it out, saying the bee had flown into her mouth. But I knew that she ate bees. She would choose the ones that had drunk the most wisteria juice and keep them alive in her mouth for a moment, let them play a little before swallowing.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)