Quotes About Ingenuity

Jamie was quick to see a use for the ice sheet.

When he was just 23, Houston took a four-hour bus ride from Boston to New York, planning to use the time to work on a project. But he was stymied, because he forgot to bring the thumb-size hard drive that held his files. Deciding he'd been inconvenienced by this sort of thing for the last time, he wrote the very first lines of Dropbox code during the ride.

La necessidad e pobreza, la hambre. Que no ay mejor maestra en el mundo, no ay mejor despertadora e aviuadora de ingenios.

Creativity means not copying.

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.

It has made me what I am. When every door is closed, one learns to climb through windows. Human nature, I suppose.

In Caverna lies were an art and everybody was an artist, even young children.

Saracen had finished his barley and was happily chewing at the corner of a sheet that had been spread across a hedge to dry. He had once discovered a tablecloth, and ever since had been optimistic about the effects of dragging cloths off the top of things.

You know, that's a really beautiful bow," Neverfell interrupted suddenly. "Did you make it?" "Found it, mended it, modified it," was the curt reply.

Show me how clever you can be, Faith.

Constraint inspires creativity

Hunter he had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he'd gotten from the army,' Garcia said, 'and i had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eating this crushed pineapple day after day and sleeping in the cars and walking around.

The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

The more common method of getting rid of an evil, is to merge it in a greater. Thus, if one suffers a loss of half his fortune at play, he overcomes his mortification by--losing the other half. The most ingenious expedient of this kind, was that of the indigent gentleman of rank, who married his washerwoman to get rid of her bill against him.

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

I would, however, add some ideas and that's what this brand new and

Do you trust storytellers, or do you trust data; the ingenuity of artists or the wisdom of the crowd?

Developers are alchemists and our job is to do everything we can to get them to do their alchemy.

outside-the-box

there's only one way out of this predicament, and that is to invent out way out

there's only one way out of this predicament, and that is to invent our way out