Quotes About Resourcefulness

losing weight. When we finish eating this horse I

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris

Hay muchas maneras de poner a secar una caja de cerillos húmeda, pero puede estar segura de que tiene remedio

La necesidad es la madre de todos los inventos y todas las posturas.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan.

Do you know, Caroline," Pa stopped singing to say, "I've been thinking what fun the rabbits will have, eating that garden we planted." "Don't, Charles," Ma said. "Never mind, Caroline!" Pa told her. "We'll make a better garden. Anyway, we're taking more out of Indian Territory than we took in." "I don't know what," Ma said, and Pa answered, "Why, there's the mule!

When Pa went into the Big Woods, he always made sure that the bullet pouch was full of bullets, and that the tin patch box and the box of caps were with it in his pockets. The powder horn and a small sharp hatchet hung at his belt and he carried the gun ready loaded on his shoulder. He always reloaded the gun as soon as he had fired it, for, he said, he did not want to meet trouble with an empty gun.

In the bitter cold weather Pa could not be sure of finding any wild game to shoot for meat. The

She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens

I had never yet had to try to fast draw a knife from a thigh sheath. It was probably going to look vaguely obscene, but if it kept me alive . . . hey, I can take a little embarrassment.   B

We'll think of something." And then I knew the other marshals were too close to talk more, because Edward's face folded into a grin. His face lit with that charm that Ted always seemed to have. If there was an Emmy award for hired killers, Edward would so have won.

A merda de um cara é o adubo de outro.

When the choice came down to tears, strong drink, or potatoes, one chooses potatoes. She

Give a man a fish,' he said, 'and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and for the rest of his life you can sell him rods and reels and hooks and leaders and flies and lures and God only knows what else.

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

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention's father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasn't been heard of since.