Quotes About Puzzles

I find it very strange when people say that they are trying to solve 'Uncle Vanya' or find a solution for 'Henry V.' Plays aren't puzzles. They are about playing. But so much theatre has become about performing and acting rather than playing, which is a great pity because audiences are captivated by watching people play.

I like poems that are little games.

A bat and ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? _______ cents If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? _______ minutes In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? _______ days

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

Mysteries are for solving, walls are for climbing, secret hideouts are for exploring. That's just how things are.

If that were the case, they wouldn't be so difficult to understand and there'd be no need for mathematicians.

When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.

Twilight Towers.

Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

Maybe Sandoval and Roger can share a room. Do puzzles and go to physical therapy together. Maybe discover that they both secretly love Jell-O. Have a real TV-movie bonding experience.

Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.

That's what I mean by Guerrilla Ontology; it's getting people to think, giving them puzzles that force them to think.

Malcolm said nothing to that. He swayed from side to side in his chair as a way of suggesting that life held many such small puzzles.

But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake.

Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

there was one thing I'd learned about deceased billionaire Tobias Hawthorne, it was that he was capable of orchestrating nearly anything, manipulating nearly anyone. He'd loved puzzles and riddles and games.

Some puzzles make more sense at two hundred miles an hour.

1. THE SECRET SEVEN 2. SECRET SEVEN ADVENTURE 3. WELL DONE, SECRET SEVEN 4. SECRET SEVEN ON THE TRAIL 5. GO AHEAD, SECRET SEVEN 6. GOOD WORK, SECRET SEVEN 7. SECRET SEVEN WIN THROUGH 8. THREE CHEERS, SECRET SEVEN 9. SECRET SEVEN MYSTERY 10. PUZZLE FOR THE SECRET SEVEN 11. SECRET SEVEN FIREWORKS 12. GOOD OLD SECRET SEVEN 13. SHOCK FOR THE SECRET SEVEN 14. LOOK OUT, SECRET SEVEN 15. FUN FOR THE SECRET SEVEN

Montalbano sat outside reading a good detective novel by two Swedish authors, husband and wife, in which there wasn't a page without a ferocious and justified attack on social democracy and the government. In his mind, Montalbano dedicated the book to all those who did not deign to read mystery novels because, in their opinion, they were only entertaining puzzles.

Having one of the highest IQs ever measured is as much a curse as it is a blessing. My parents were great, though: they were always seeking the most difficult presents possible for me - Rubik's cubes and things like that.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Never try to seduce someone who is of your own type. You will be like two puzzles missing the same parts.

Science provides us with some of the most elegant, stimulating puzzles that life has to offer. It throws some of the most provocative ideas into our arenas of moral debate. Occasionally, it improves our lives. I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means that you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.