Quotes About Problem-solving

I've always been a collaborator. For me, it's, 'What's the issue I'm trying to solve? Who are the people we need to bring around the table to solve it?'

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

You play in different situations and conditions, and you have to come up with new solutions for the problems. It has made me a more rounded player, who can handle different tactics and positions.

In my opinion, it's better to be alone out there, having to decide on your tactics during the matches. I would prefer it if it was just me and my opponent having to solve the problems out there on the court.

I find talented, driven, boundlessly ambitious people and help them solve problems that will hopefully improve the lives of millions. Sometimes this means investing in startup founders. Other times, it involves helping organize and fundraise for charity or politics.

I needed to understand the spirit of a tall building, what makes it important, what should I try to achieve in a tall building. It became a very interesting problem, something that I like very much.

Map coloring problem. Find the smallest number m such that the faces of every planar graph can be colored with m or fewer colors in such a way that faces sharing a border have different colors.

It has been said that geometry is the art of applying good reasoning to bad diagrams.

But the pure mathematician's goal is to have a good time, not to be efficient; and machine-building is a lot more fun than problem-solving.

What do you want me to do?" says Kasabian. "I don't think Howard can get out of the bedroom, but if he does . . ." "I know. Punch him in the balls." "You got it.

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

It's a philosophy promoted by Silicon Valley start-ups that the best people are those who don't know that something "can't be done," and therefore will figure out how to do it.

you can solve any large or complex problem by breaking it down into smaller, simpler problems.

Equally, there's a good chance that there's someone who you think is "just not doing it right" and is undermining the project. In these cases, the technology you need to solve your problem is very old and well established indeed, in fact it's possibly the most important technical innovation in the history of humanity. What you need is a conversation.

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

There's no problem so big that whining won't make it worse.

Sometimes when you've pulled and pushed at a problem without getting an answer, or tried to grab a too-slippery memory, if you completely dismiss the matter from consciousness, often — when it's least expected — the answer will pop up like toast from the depths of your unconscious toaster. I do it all the time. In fact, that may be why some people call me Shell Scott, the Unconscious Detective.

What was the sense of talking about a problem if you didn't have a way to solve it?

The next time you are trying to be creative in a meeting, gently lean forward and pull against the table. When the going gets tough, cross your arms to help perseverance in the face of failure. If that doesn't work, lie down. If anyone accuses you of being lazy, quietly explain that you are employing your locus coeruleus in the war against rigid thinking.

custom engineering" unit, which basically keeps capabilities on the shelf but which can reinvigorate them when they seem relevant once more to a customer's problem or retire them when the customer no longer needs support.

The necessary resources are assembled to tackle a specific task or problem, and when the work is done the organization, such as it is, is disassembled and moves on to the next task.

When it don't rain, the roof don't leak; when it rains, I can't fix it nohow.

Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.

That's the beauty about this business. You don't have to know anything; you just have to know where to find out.