George F. Will Quotes

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

We all are limited in that none of us can fly and none of us can run faster than some animals, but we figure out a way to go to Tokyo if we have to, right? Or we run faster than an animal with a race car.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

Make it work

Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

Apollo wasn't just about sending people into space. It transformed so much of our economy. From our education system to so many of the things we use today, it was a vision that led to the total transformation of the planet.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.