Quotes About Ingenuity

What the books don't tell you is, there's a sixteenth way. You can use it when you've got nothing; no stuff, no men and nobody to lead them.

To be innovative, you have to be different. - Kailin Gow, STEM Stage Speech

I'm very creative, intuitive - I like to entertain.

We didn't invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works.

I invented every shot that has ever been played.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

Architecture is invention.

We should have more invention.

I want to be an inventor in the real sense.

That's one of the advantages of being an inventor and tinkerer - I have everything I need to make what I need.

When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.

America is full of entrepreneurs, inventors, and dreamers.

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.

Somehow you get past languages. I don't speak Mandarin. I don't speak fluent Italian. I don't speak German. But it's amazing how when you need to get something done, it finds a way.

When I was a kid, I never wanted to be James Bond. I wanted to be Q, because he was the guy who made all the gadgets. I guess you could say that engineering came naturally.

Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren't interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself.

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

Coca-Cola bottles exactly fitted the average person's hand. Bandages came as a packet of pink patches with a glue just strong enough for the human skin already applied to each one. America was a torrent of clever anticipations.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?