Quotes About Ingenuity

I've had to sink my teeth into a role that was probably a fried-chicken dinner and make it into a filet mignon.

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

The world played chess, while I played checkers.

Ramsey spun an uncurled paper clip

where did these people their food? i'm hungry.

All the rules had to be invented from the beginning. No one knew what the rules were, but gradually figured them out. The basics were: We've got to take a line. We've got to stay up off the floor. We have to have enough light to see. And we have to save enough air to get out.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

Like foxes to a dustbin,

Biros mostly. Whatever's around."' Waldegrave

Don't imitate me; it's as boring as the two halves of a melon.

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

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. —Thomas Edison

During the early stages of a project, don't study how the task has been approached in the company, industry, field, or region where you are working.

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

Las naturalezas creativas no son especulativas. Eso las distingue de los imitadores.

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Si supieseis cuánto trabajo costó, no lo llamaríais ingenio

Exponential creativity demands abnormality. And requires us to deviate from ordinary company.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.