Roy Thomson Quotes

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

My brain's always working, and gears are turning 24/7. So I was trying to think of solutions.

You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

I like to make people think a little bit.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

To think is to differ.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

Ideas are things that happen at any time because you're constantly thinking and evaluating life as if it were an eternally unsolvable math problem, which it is.

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

I just like the obstacle course of figuring out something.

Part of the job involves thinking about things and eliminating them. You spend a lot of time coming up with ideas that are terrible and hating them and hating yourself.

I like movies as a viewer that challenge me to actually think rather than spoon feed everything to me.

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

One of the most important tools in critical thinking about numbers is to grant yourself permission to generate wrong answers to mathematical problems you encounter. Deliberately wrong answers!

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.