Quotes About Puzzles

Je verandert ook nooit. Altijd raadsels, altijd verhaaltjes, altijd geheimen.

The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be. […] Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

I numeri primi sono ciò che rimane una volta eliminati tutti gli schemi: penso che i numeri primi siano come la vita. Sono molto logici ma non si riesce mai a scoprirne le regole, anche se si passa tutto il tempo a pensarci su

Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits long you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000.

I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer at the end

If Dick's sister married Tom's brother what relation would Dick be to Tom's mother? That's the kind of thing, isn't it?' suggested Hoffman.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

We do jigsaw puzzles. Here's a pro tip: Listen to an audiobook while doing it.

The world is full of conundrums that will tax your skills. Do you presume that you will always get to choose the ones that best suit your strengths?

Q: Why didn't 4 like 5? A: Because he was odd.

Q: What do a Rubik's Cube and a penis have in common? A: The more you play with them, the harder they get.

Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.

That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?

Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries.

the problem with philosphy problems is that they don't have proper solutions

You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings true." "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.

Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be.

I love anything quiz related.

That's good. Life is full of riddles that only the dead can answer," was Dad's reply.

I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.

I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.