Quotes About Problem-solving

If you're good at the debugger it means you spent a lot of time debugging. I don't want you to be good at the debugger.

When you are working on a problem, you sometimes get so close to it that you can't see all the options. You miss elegant solutions because the creative part of your mind is suppressed by the intensity of your focus. Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to go home, eat dinner, watch TV, go to bed, and then wake up the next morning and take a shower.

Desarrolle la habilidad de percibir los problemas mientras todavía sean pequeños y atacarlos antes de que se vuelvan incontrolables o ya no tengan remedio.

President Lyndon Johnson once said, "If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it is a bureaucracy." Don

Your mind was already thinking ahead to what you would do when the cover plate was off, and so it takes a little time to realize that this irritating minor annoyance of a torn screw slot isn't just irritating and minor. You're stuck. Stopped. Terminated. It's absolutely stopped you from fixing the motorcycle. This isn't a rare scene in science or technology. This is the commonest scene of all. Just plain stuck.

What you need is an hypothesis for how you're going to get that slotless screw out of there and scientific method doesn't provide any of these hypotheses. It operates only after they're around. This is the zero moment of consciousness. Stuck. No answer. Honked. Kaput. It's a miserable experience emotionally. You're losing time. You're incompetent. You don't know what you're doing. You should be ashamed of yourself.

The ingenious way in which Dennison and his colleagues broke out of their seemingly impregnable prison, using only a steel belt buckle, a tungsten filament, three hens' eggs, and twelve chemicals that can be readily obtained from the human body, is too well known to be repeated here.

In the early 1990s, Donald Trump was nearly $1 billion in debt personally and $9 billion in debt corporately. An interviewer asked him if he was worried. He replied, Worrying is a waste of time. Worrying gets in my way of working to solve these problems.

by automatically saying the words "I can't afford it," your brain stops working. By asking the question "How can I afford it?" your brain is put to work.

To get on the financial Fast Track, become an expert at solving a certain type of problem. Do not diversify like Type-B investors are advised to do. Become an expert at solving one type of problem, and people will come to you with money to invest.

Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide.

I'd like to see you think the roof back on that barn," Call said.

Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.) There

Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.)

Hay muchas maneras de poner a secar una caja de cerillos húmeda, pero puede estar segura de que tiene remedio

La necesidad es la madre de todos los inventos y todas las posturas.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

We'll think of something." And then I knew the other marshals were too close to talk more, because Edward's face folded into a grin. His face lit with that charm that Ted always seemed to have. If there was an Emmy award for hired killers, Edward would so have won.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.