Problem-solving Quotes

"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" "Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow." "You need to let go of the idea of there being a single solution so that you can be ready for something better than that." "The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You don't have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today" "The woman's disease, as I'm prone to calling it, once sparked within me a need for movement, a dedication to performance and problem solving, quite frankly." "We believed in the power of technology to solve human problems." "I want to be part of the solution not part of the problem " "The main functions of intelligence are: to invent solutions where there are none, to create orders where it is chaos, to simplify where it is complexity, to establish connectedness where things are otherwise disconnected" "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution."