Problem-solving Quotes

"Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation." "Start with the premise that the worst has happened to you and work backward." "We’re always going to find a way to break any system set in front of us." "There is always a better way" "To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk" "There's a way to do it better - find it" "Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it" "Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem" "Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem." "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." "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" "Hell there are no rules here we're trying to accomplish something"