Quotes About Ingenuity

Be your own dentist!

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

a plan executed in less-than-ideal conditions is always better than a plan that wasn't executed at all.

Human intellect is mere smartness that ensures survival.

You have a genius.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

What fiendishness went on in kitchens across the country, in the name of providing food!

Monkey brains, had been Crake's opinion. Monkey paws, monkey curiosity, the desire to take apart, turn inside out, smell, fondle, measure, improve, trash, discard – all hooked up to monkey brains, an advanced model of monkey brains but monkey brains all the same. Crake had no very high opinion of human ingenuity, despite the large amount of it he himself possessed.

Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn.

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

So much technology, so little talent.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.