Quotes About Ingenuity

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.

Tra il primo pensiero d'una impresa terribile, e l'esecuzione di essa, (ha detto un barbaro che non era privo d'ingegno) 277 l'intervallo è un sogno, pieno di fantasmi e di paure.

Alex Anderson

So vast is art, so narrow human wit

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.

The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of job creation in America. The source of new jobs isn't going to be the bureaucracies of Washington, but rather the creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of the American people.

I had three toy buckets, and I would put hot water in them because we weren't allowed to sit in the jacuzzi - we weren't old enough - so I would charge people $1, and everyone would line up, and everyone would sit in this disgusting hot water-sand-filled thing, and I would get $1 and go to the snack bar and get an Oreo.

I remember not having a hot water tank, so we had to use a kettle for hot showers. So, you know, we would put the kettle on and go have a shower, and then my mum would come bring three or four kettles in, just to heat them up. And it would take five, 10 minutes for every kettle to heat up.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

I run with a credit card and a cell phone, so when there is not a 7-Eleven around, like some of the country roads out there, I can get him to deliver a pizza to me. And I kind of give them a coordinate, a corner.

I'd quite like to invent something that allows me to in eat the shower - not sure what it would entail. Some sort of funnel that goes from the plate to my mouth to move the food to my mouth and keep it dry, perhaps.

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.

I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.

If you exhaust every play out of the pocket, what happens is you find more opportunities.

I always walk around with a few moves in my pocket. You never know when you may need to bust one out.

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.