Sergey Brin Quotes

Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

I'm a perfectionist. And that's served me very well in my career. It allows me to handle these large, complex problems without letting things fall through the cracks... That is the mentality you have to have to attack these complex problems of chip design, for example, when you're overwhelmed with complexity.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where you can make progress. But always keep in mind the big problems.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.

At the end of the day, leaders have to come up with pragmatic solutions that work

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

I'm not sure people would think of me in this light, but frankly, what I enjoyed most about Bain & Company, the consulting firm, was the analytical process of solving tough problems.

I think we need ideas for the future.

I like to consider myself a problem solver. I don't like to spend a lot of time talking about the problem, stressing out or being dramatic about it. I like to try and figure out how I can fix it.

I think sometimes a part requires more than one approach or thought.

If you go deep into a problem, you'll find most all of the time that there are yet more problems to be solved from the ground up.

Most business problems, you will have an intuitive idea on what to do.

My experience in government is there is a whole host of unintended consequences you have to think through. I can't un-know that, I find it harder now to offer simple solutions.

Being a scientist/engineer by nature, I approach everything as a problem.

You don't see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve.