problem-solving approaches Quotes

I'm supporting anything that we can do to find out how this stuff is happening.

Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.

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

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.

You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue... There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.