This one ran on my own blog a few months ago, but seemed like a good one to introduce to a new audience. My maternal grandfather was among the last US troops deployed to Europe during World War II and came up with a creative solution to the lack of tasty food available in post-war Germany:
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a
person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as
possible" - Freeman Dyson