Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys' sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.
Being able to see and recombine existing assets and know-how in new ways allows us to take an 'ingenious approach to innovation' - one that creates even more value from what we already have and know.
Bitcoin solved the double-spend problem. The key problem was payment confirmation without central clearing. Bitcoin's solution was ingenious but wasteful - it's fairly slow, and you can't put other things on it.
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
