Obvious Solution Quotes

The patient says, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Then don't do that!"

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.

The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think "of course it's that way, why would it be any other way?" It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.

People were getting sick. It seemed, at least to me when I started looking at the information, looking at the documents, that this was pretty obvious, what was going on, and if other people could see what we were seeing, they would agree: this is obvious and it needs to stop.

It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.

It's not rocket science. It's social science.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.