R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.

If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.

Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

To solve a problem, you have to be able to state what the problem is or at least say the name.

Most problems precisely defined are already partially solved.

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

When you pass a law you don't solve the problem. You state the problem.

Usually, what I recommend to entrepreneurs is to focus on telling the problem first, about the customer or the person who has that problem.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

a problem well put is half solved.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.

What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.

A problem is a question you haven't yet answered to a level that has fulfilled you.