Problem Solving Quotes

"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem." "Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." "Critique by creating." "The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails" "My message, especially to young people, is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed." "You can't fix a problem using the same kind of thinking that created it" "Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people" "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." "The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration" "Good leaders don’t make excuses Instead they figure out a way to get it done" "The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day" "You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem" "Blaming others for your problems is a complete waste of time" "You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down" "No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking" "For every challenge there is a solution" "No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific concrete form is a very essential element in thinking" "Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else. " "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."