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Necessity is the mother of all invention.
The Improbable Is Not Impossible
Desire is the design flaw.") The
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
...it is easier to make powerful ideas practical than it is to make pedestrian ideas powerful.
Doing the impossible is posible
Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
Sometimes, the inessential is essential.
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment."
"What is it?"
"Impossibility.
Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.
The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
The first way design fails is due to lack of it.
The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. My
Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.
Design is a dreadful form of expression
To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
We often despise what is most useful to us.
Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.
Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.
Unadaptability is often a virtue.
In my own behalf, I rejoice that I could once think better of the world's improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice in a lifetime; or, if so, the rarer and higher is the nature that can thus magnanimously persist in error.
A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The expert has, perhaps, no more ideas than the inexperienced, but appreciates more what he has and uses it better.
To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
Experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow. Only principles endure
A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word "impossible," and neatly clip it out of the book. That would not be an unwise thing for you to do.
Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.
The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary
To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd
Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today.
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency.
While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word "impossible." He knows all the rules which will NOT work. He knows all the things which CANNOT be done.
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.
Every significant invention must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
Innovation is not only useless without people but it's also useless without implementation.
Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
A great many things are possible. And to himself he added: But not practical.
Vision without implementation is counterproductive.
For not all things are practicable on identical principles
An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .
What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Technology. It's like science, only useless.
Those who consider the inessential to be essential
And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential,
Living in the field of wrong intention
Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.
It generally appears outlandish until its carried out.
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.
As John Maxwell has written, "You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything."9
There is an air of plausibility which accompanies vulgar reasonings and notions, taken from the beaten circle of ordinary experience, that is admirably suited to the narrow capacities of some, and to the laziness of others.
There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.
Sometimes things that seem like good ideas in theory, in practice turn out to be the worst kinds of boneheaded blunders.
Functional coherence makes accidental invention fantastically improbable and therefore physically impossible. The
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.
Necessity is the mother of invention but boredom is the mother of doing bafflingly stupid shit.
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools
Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Ideas are useless unless used.
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.
When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.
Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.
An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Impossible is such a stupid word.
I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.
All the modern inconveniences ...
Impertinent is a word which actually means not suitable to the circumstances, but most people use it to mean I am using a complicated word in hopes that it will make you stop talking ...
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.
The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be.
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting.
Only useless things are indispensable.
To expect an impossibility is madness.
They say necessity is the mother of invention, but if that's the case, laziness must be its father.
Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a 'necessity' for all.
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the grandmother of desperation.
Useless, like a revolution.
Thwarted by technobabble.
Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world