Explore popular quotes and sayings by an engineer Genrich Altshuller.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Genrikh Saulovich Altshuller, was a Soviet engineer, inventor, and writer. He is most notable for the creation of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, better known by its Russia acronym TRIZ. He founded the Azerbaijan Public Institute for Inventive Creation, and was the first President of the TRIZ Association. He also wrote science fiction under the pen-name Genrikh Altov.
Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.
Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked
of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced and disbelieved them immediately and without argument. Why should everything but creativity be open
to scrutiny? What kind of process can this be which unlike all others is not subject
to control?…What can be more alluring than the discovery of the nature of
talented thought and converting this thinking from occasional and fleeting flashes
into a powerful and controllable fire of knowledge.
The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.
I became more and more interested in the mechanics of creativity.