Kevin Mitnick Quotes

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history.

I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.

I'm a pretty good problem solver.

Growing up, I feel like my character was so much about being a problem-solver and a truth-seeker and always needing to get to the bottom of everything.

When we see something as a problem, we have to try and solve it and the best way is generally through education.

As an engineer, you learn there is a solution to every problem. It may take you a while, but eventually you're going to find it.

You always need to be curious and study.

My Grinnell education didn't prepare me directly for the work that I'm doing, but it did give me the tools that I needed to focus my curiosity.

You need a group of people who will continually realize that you will run into problems, and for each you will have hundreds or thousands of ways you can approach it.

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.