Quotes About Problem-solving

Accidents. It was all about accidents. No scientist would admit to it, of course, but most great invention occurred while one was attempting to solve some other problem entirely

The word jugaad means a lot to us Indians.

You have to be innovative and creative to make yourself employable.

I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut.

I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.

What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.

When he was just 23, Houston took a four-hour bus ride from Boston to New York, planning to use the time to work on a project. But he was stymied, because he forgot to bring the thumb-size hard drive that held his files. Deciding he'd been inconvenienced by this sort of thing for the last time, he wrote the very first lines of Dropbox code during the ride.

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.

If there's more than a 20 percent chance our child might be able to work it out, we should keep clear of owning the problem and not rob our child of the opportunity to learn and grow from the experience.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

Constraint inspires creativity

I do not believe in sitting on a problem. Because the longer you sit on that thing, the longer it'll irritate you. If you're keeping it to yourself, there's nothing the guy you're mad at can do to fix it, either, because you haven't told him why you're mad.

Experience has taught me, in fact, that no man should be pitied because, every day in his life, he faces a hard, stubborn problem, but rather that it is the man who has no problem to solve, no hardships to face, who is to be pitied.

there's only one way out of this predicament, and that is to invent out way out

there's only one way out of this predicament, and that is to invent our way out

Occam's Razor. My father had often repeated that one to me. Occam's Razor states the following: "Other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one." Put more succinctly, the simplest answer was usually the best one. So

usually something unrelated to the task at hand, ricocheting your thoughts into an unexpected direction—a direction that inevitably leads to a solution linear thinking could never have approached.

Occam's razor. It states - that the simplest explanation is usually the right one.

Even when they tell you "it can't be done, it's never been done, nobody's ever done it that way," all they're revealing about themselves is that they are limited, minimally-talented, inept, lazy to the point where they'll let the job walk out the door then have to stretch their imagination to figure out a way the job can be done, and they are not people you should be dealing with, because they can't solve their own problems, much less yours.

If a subordinate performs a task and the outcome is not what you expected, don't attack their intelligence or their character. Politely explain the deficiencies and offer an idea for a solution. Subordinates quickly lose respect for any leader who is "all problem and no solution.

Don't complain to your boss. He wants solutions; not just problems.

groups of people gathered around an issue for which they care deeply will find the way–provided they had the (safe) space in which to explore.

Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.