#ingenio

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

#belief #change #devices #face #governments

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#debt #ingenious #substitute #whip

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#arrangement #believes #civilization #ingenious #inventor

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#chance #comfortable #conviction #enjoy #game

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#because #become #derive #her #his

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. ↗

— Robert Moog

#designs #details #done #effective #electronics

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#being #human #human being #ingenious #plumbing

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#ingenious #man #plumbing #portable

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains. ↗

— Karl Rove

#describes #gains #ingenious #job #job losses

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#basis #been #built #business #entrepreneurs