Quotes About Ingenuity

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They're allowed to think.

project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a "hack.

qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity.

Hackers can do almost anything and be a hacker. You can be a hacker carpenter. It's not necessarily high tech. I think it has to do with craftsmanship and caring about what you're doing.

When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark."

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

few less smart-aleck attorneys and a few more Henry Fords, and the world would have less troubles and more to eat." Ford, added another small-town paper, "comes nearer being typical of the average, energetic, courageous, honest, uncultured American than any other one man in this country….

Los hombres no se contentan con consolarse mediante cuentos de dios y gigantes, o limitando sus pensamientos a los asuntos cotidianos de la vida. También construyen telescopios, satélites y aceleradores, y se sientan en sus escritorios durante horas interminables tratando de descifrar el significado de los datos que reúnen.

I made wine out of raisins so I would not have to wait for it to age.

The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse who gets the cheese.

I once locked my keys out of my car. I had to break out of my car with a coat hanger.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

You are an ingenuous little terranaut, who is having a series of grubby adventures.

Humans had to make do with what they could.

They were the poorest, grubbiest people I had even seen, and yet, despite their obvious poverty, they were not at all melancholy or apathetic. They burgeoned like a colony of ants in the gargantuan skeleton of the past, shifting rubbish, recycling everything, conjuring a new art from the bones.

But in a fit of inspiration he'd fashioned a balaclava from a Tesco carrier bag – the handles tied beneath his chin.

But there was a difference between being bright and possessing those sparks of ideas that lead to original thought.

We don't all need to be geniuses; some of us just need to practical applicators and adapters.

I've used soap dishes as ashtrays in the best hotels in the world.