Alexander Theroux Quotes

Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.

Sometimes technique works better than a whole lot of other things.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

I don’t give a damn where an idea comes from. If it’s good, use it.

I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

Necessity does everything well.

There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks from the springs of the bed.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

Everything that I make I use.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

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.

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.

I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.