Henri Poincare Quotes

Everything that I make I use.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Necessity, the mother of invention

Necessity is the mother of invention.

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

I've always appreciated a creative approach to action, doing things that people don't expect, tweaking things to make them different.

I give myself limits - not only financial limits, but I also limit my method of expression, and from within those limits, I try to come up with something new and interesting.

Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

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

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

Never let money get in the way of an idea

Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.

At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.