Quotes About Problem-solving

When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.

My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

To solve the Cube, you need special skills and understanding. For example, pattern recognition is very important to solve the Cube.

Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.

Education gives you the ability to know it. Intelligence gives you the capacity to fix it. Wisdom lets you know when to do it.

An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.

If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall.

Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom.

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

At times, we, as coaches, try to shove guys as square pegs into round holes and keep hammering away.

The nice thing about Squirrel Girl is that she's smart, and she looks for situations that don't necessarily involve punching people all the time.

When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.

There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.