Quotes About Problem-solving

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Frustration begins where knowledge ends

Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem.

A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.