Quotes About Problem-solving

Taking responsibility is not accepting blame instead of assigning it. It simply means consciously responding to the situation. Once you take responsibility, you will invariably start exploring ways to address the situation. You will look for solutions.

Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains not optimal decisions but more or less satisfactory compromises between conflicting constraints.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

If you had duct tape, you were prepared for anything.

Necessity is the mother of invention

It was way cool, being the one who did the math.

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.

She solves problems that people haven't predicted, sees things people haven't seen, and connects people who need to be connected.

What They Should Teach in School Only two things: 1. Solve interesting problems 2. Lead SOLVE

students today are educated collecting dots. Almost none of it spent teaching them the skills necessary to connect dots. The magic of connecting dots is that once you learn the techniques, the dots can change but you'll still be good at connecting them.

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