Complex Tasks Quotes

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

That's just always the way my mind has worked, is taking something that seems impossible, or too big, and then breaking it down into these pieces so that I know how to get there.

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.

Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.

If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

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

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

I like involved projects.

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

We both got caught on making a bureaucracy work on things that were much bigger than that which they had ever worked on.

Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

Being an editor it's a complicated job, but the last impression I'd want anybody to have is that it's onerous. It's a joy - a complicated joy, but a joy.

For many people, being asked to solve their own retirement savings problems is like being asked to build their own cars.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

The work that we do is so tricky because it rests on our shoulders, but it's also collaborative and part of it is trusting the people that you're working with.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.