Quotes About Problem-solving

Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

When a watch is broken you take it apart to analyze what is wrong with it. When a technique does not work, if you analyze it carefully you can always find out what is wrong.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

I do not have answers to all the problems, but for sure will work to find solutions to as many as I can.

"My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.

Hello?... No I'm sorry no Shaquita here. Well what number did you dial?.. No it's a nine not a seven... Well try it if it doest work call me back we'll figure this thing out.

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

Take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

I didn't fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn't work.

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?