Quotes About Problem-solving

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Play exercises both your physical and creative muscles. It helps you move around, solve problems, challenge yourself, and think in new ways. Not to mention that it's just plain fun.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

Computer science teaches and nurtures the type of thinking that 21st century citizens will need to address 21st century issues. We cannot know with any certainty what those challenges will be, but we can arm our students with the tools needed to address them.

I'm a competitor. Any time you work hard and you envision something a certain way and it's not going as you planned and you see it, you know, you go back to the drawing board and you figure it out.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that,' they might make it.

I'd quite like to invent something that allows me to in eat the shower - not sure what it would entail. Some sort of funnel that goes from the plate to my mouth to move the food to my mouth and keep it dry, perhaps.

I approach an action sequence almost like a mathematical problem. Sometimes you get these action sequences that you read and go, 'Oh my God, this is huge, how do I do it?' and I go, 'Just a step at a time. Sit down and plot each piece of it out.'

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Don't sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do.

Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

I learned how to make an endoscope using a Swiss Army Knife, a cell phone camera, cell phone, and chewing gum.

When I was sworn in, we had Republican-sponsored climate-change bills all over the place. You had John McCain running for President in 2008 on a strong climate platform. You could see American democracy actually starting to work at solving a difficult problem.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

Baking and coding involve using the same parts of your brain and a lot of the same skills, like being able to follow directions or create directions in a very systematic way.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems

Let's talk about this. I need to know why it happened and how we can keep it from happening again." "Can we talk about what happened?" "I feel that we need to talk this out so it doesn't happen again.

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

Everyone reading this book will have heard the expression sleep on it as advice for tackling a problem. There's truth to this saying because your unconscious has the ability to help you see things from a different perspective. Your unconscious is also where most of your mental habits function. Whenever we learn to do something with our minds, it becomes automated, and we become unconsciously skilled at it.

If you're looking for difficulties, you'll always find them. If you ask the question, What can go wrong? then something probably will. On the other hand, if you're asking the question, What works? then you can find it and, in this case, I did.