Quotes About Ingenuity

I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!

We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

Peyton's pretty good at figuring stuff out.

I'm not a Larry David. I don't have a 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and a 'Seinfeld' in me.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

I think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time.

I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, 'This is Jay-Z's attorney, we need to speak with Craig Kallman,' you know, owner of Atlantic, and they'd say, 'Right away,' and then I'd be like, 'Please just listen to my demo tape!'

I love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.

Everybody has stories about using duct tape. Of course, most don't try to lift a car with it.

When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

After multiple failures, when I tasted success, I was at my creative best - the 'jugaadu'-best.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —Leonardo da Vinci

Getting caught is the mother of invention.