Quotes About Problem-solving

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems.

You were taught how to do the things you needed to do. Dance, speech, fencing. They groomed people. If you were in a film, and the script wasn't working for you, they brought in screenwriters and fixed the scripts.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

I'm brilliant at working out numbers up to 180 but if you ask me to split a restaurant bill I'm rubbish.

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.

I'm surprised at you! If it will take ten years to make the machine with available technology, and only five years to make it with a new technology, and it will only take two years to invent the new technology, then you can do it in seven years by inventing the new technology first!

Like every other state-of-the-art conference room AV system in the history of the world, it failed to work on the first go and so it was necessary to summon someone who understood how it worked; and like all such persons he could not be found.

there didn't seem to be any computer-driven process that couldn't be improved upon by humans crawling around on the actual structure and writing on it with grease pencils.

HE WORKED IT OUT FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES ON THE WHITEBOARD

his first instinct with things that troubled him was to wall them off, and then wait for them to grow bad enough to threaten the structural integrity of the wall, and then, finally, to get out a sledgehammer.

Randy was forever telling people, without rancor, that they were full of shit. That was the only way to get anything done in hacking. No one took it personally.

as normally solved by engineers, would require any number of perfectly reasonable but aesthetically displeasing approximations. Lawrence's solution would provide exact results.

He is disappointed because he has solved the problem, and has gone back to the baseline state of boredom and low-level irritation that always comes over him when he's not doing something that inherently needs to be done, like picking a lock or breaking a code.

Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?

Our academic system rewards people who know a lot of stuff and generally we call those people smart, but at the end of the day who do you want- the person who can figure things out that they've never seen before or the person who can rattle off a bunch of facts?

consider a spherical cow.

As we say, if your only tool is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.