Quotes About Puzzle

Sergio Mora is a Rubik's Cube. You have to figure him out. He's crafty and I have the utmost respect for him.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

No code is ever completely solved, you know. —ELIZEBETH S. FRIEDMAN

The Nursery Crime Division was not disbanded and is still active to this day.

I still can't believe that animals don't understand why delicious food is in such a ridiculous spot.

She said she'd often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She'd spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you'd done in a past life you didn't need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn't be ready to do now.

When I touch her, my fingers don't question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thing about strangers is that they are unknown and known. There is a pattern to her, a shape I understand, a private geometry that numbers mine. She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am. She is a stranger. She is the strange that I am beginning to love.

Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.

Sure, he said. He started moving the bits around. Lets see. This looks like it must say . . . and so then this would go here . . . and this . . . He paused and looked up at her. Haven't we done this before?

She decided to keep this letter because of the strange way it was written.

Mysterious Words from the Past

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're detective stories.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

And what they found was something no one had ever seen before." "What's that?" "Well, no one had ever seen it, so it didn't have a name.

A Soulution to Rubik's Cube is not a series of individual good guesses, each surmounting move has twelve to one odds against success. It is a series of perplexed movements or algorithms that form a coherent method of returning back to it's original (correct) state.

The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?' " -Rovender Kitt