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Quotes About Problem-solving

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
~ Charles Stross
Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them
~ Chetan Bhagat
Leadership is the day to day communications about the real issues.
~ Chris Argyris
The future belongs to the puzzle solvers.
~ Chris Grabenstein
My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I'd take it apart and reassemble it. At 16, I really understood the architecture of things.
~ Marcel Wanders
'MacGruber' came to life mostly because we just liked saying 'MacGyver.' 'MacGyver' this. 'MacGyver' that. It's a great word.
~ Jorma Taccone
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
~ Robert Byrne
What about you, Commander? Why do *you* seek higher rank?' It was a question many had asked over the years. Thrawn had asked it of himself. The answer never seemed to satisfy the questioner. 'Because there are problems that must be solved. Some cannot be solved by anyone except me.
~ Timothy Zahn
Your business plan should tell a compelling story. It should present a problem that you are going to fix.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention's father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasn't been heard of since.
~ Tom Holt
It's not about just coming up with the one genius idea that solves the problem, but trying and failing at a hundred other solutions before arriving at the best one.
~ Tom Kelley
New opportunities for innovation open up when you start the creative problem-solving process with empathy toward your target audience—whether
~ Tom Kelley
InnoCentive.
~ Tom Kelley
Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.
~ Tom Robbins
He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.
~ Kerry Greenwood
If you eliminate all the logical solutions to a problem, then the illogical solution—even though it's impossible—has to be the right one.
~ Kerstin Gier
Taktika se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada nešto može da se uradi. Strategija se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada ništa ne može da se uradi. Savelij Tartakover (poljski velemajstor)
~ Ketrin Nevil
It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.
~ Kevin Mitnick
When she called her brother, Buster said that she should climb out the window of the bathroom and run away, which was his solution to most problems.
~ Kevin Wilson
And how easy do you think it is to obtain it? Like, do you think I can just find child sizes of Nomex clothing at Walmart? Like, for tiny firefighters? I'm having to get it altered. It's complicated. I'm being pushed to my limits in terms of thinking creatively about our situation.
~ Kevin Wilson
I was quick to learn the tricks of the trade, the most important being: when you run into an unsolvable problem, use grease liberally; it opens all doors.
~ Khushwant Singh
If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.
~ Kofi Annan
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
~ Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.
~ Carl Sandburg