Genrich Altshuller quotes:

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.

I became more and more interested in the mechanics of creativity...

The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.