B. F. Skinner Quotes

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

Without our emotions, we can't make smart decisions.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

When you have a problem, the first thing to do in addressing it is to honestly identify it.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

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.

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

With thought, all problems can be resolved.

You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. Realistically, the more problems we have and the larger they are, the greater our value to our employer.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.