Problem Solving Quotes

"There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs" "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity" "When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success" "It is much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem." "When you need to innovate, you need collaboration" "It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something" "Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else" "There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators, solidarity with the oppressed and their struggles everywhere." "Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow." "When ideas fail, words come in handy" "If a problem cannot be solved enlarge it" "The secret ingredient for success in science is the ability to ask good questions." "I’m like a bumper car. If I hit a wall, I’m backing up and going in another direction" "People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole." "I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem and that yardstick is Is it good for America" "If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards" "I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That's how I came up with a solution." "In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well" "The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself." "The best way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself"