Quotes About Problem-solving

The only intelligence tests orcas don't pass are the ones that require hands.

It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to "get involved" in a problem, it is best not to let them have any sharp implements.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?

A horse blanket, Mel?I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right fo

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

The only way to make your PC go faster is to throw it out a window.

I've realized that instead of posting all my problems on Facebook, its better to find solutions for them on Google.

But the fact remained that a tense situation just made McKay think faster. You could probably phrase it as an equation, where the increasing awfulness of whatever tight spot they were in was directly proportional to the speed of McKay's ability to think a way out of it.

Solving your problems is an interesting exercise in lateral thinking. "So you're bored?

Einstein said later in life, "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Regardless of profession or title, at some level we are all hired to do the same job. We are all problem solvers, paid to anticipate, identify, prevent, and solve problems within our areas of expertise. This applies to any job, at any level, in any organization, anywhere in the world, and being aware of this is absolutely vital to job search and career success in any field.

Specifically, what are you going to do to deal with that matter? What are your action items here? What are your ideas about solving that problem? When will you carry out that plan? Keep the questions you-oriented so that

All the lessons of invention come down to this: The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, 'There's water in the carburettor'. I said, 'Where's the car?' She said, 'In the lake'.

Set-based development means that you communicate constraints, not solutions.

and Alexander was nothing if not resourceful. He had had the legs of her chair cut down.