A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas AdamsTags: design foolproof ingenuity
We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.
Will EisnerTags: possibility ingenuity
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
Oliver DeMilleTags: leadership ingenuity allegiance
She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.
Ayn RandTags: progress purpose technology utility ingenuity
Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality.
Adam GopnikTags: intelligence mortality humans ingenuity drive urgency smarts
Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared; he uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects, and will take greater risks in carrying them out, than any other malefactor on earth.
Robert BarrIf you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Steve JobsThey were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.
Lauren WilligTags: invention ingenuity american
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience...
War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.
Tags: peace war creativity ingenuity alternatives political-propaganda
Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.
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