Ingenuity – Quotes

I think ingenuity is

I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit. Gail Zappa

Most of the people I’ve been fortunate enough to work with all share the same passion for creativity, for ingenuity, for playing make-believe and really just having fun. It doesn’t matter if we’re blowing up cars, or shooting an emotional scene in a police station, deep inside we all know our imaginations are at work, … Read more

If one’s object is

If one’s object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization. Evelyn Waugh

Making the simple complex

Making the simple complex doesn’t take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that’s ingenuity! Ernie J Zelinski

In seeking to avoid

In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate. Ernest Becker

The only royal road

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity. Eric Temple Bell

Anywhere the struggle is

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high. Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

But the conceit of

But the conceit of one’s self and the conceit of one’s hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one’s money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations … Read more

…Simplifications have had a

…Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the … Read more

It may be roundly

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. Edgar Allan Poe