All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we...

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

People who can solve problems in a new way are the innovators.

Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind's invention, your mind's exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is...

There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems.

Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't.

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your...

I sometimes shock the people around me with how I see things. I come up with very unique solutions to things. As I can picture things in my mind and move them around to design and understand them.

If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one.

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best - solve problems.

Our ability to solve problems is limited by our conception of what is feasible.

Always think in circles to get your ideas around

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the...

Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet

Pulling focus away from a particular problem (and, instead, looking at the environment around it) can lead to better solutions. When we give notes on Pixar movies and isolate a scene, say, that isn't...

Nothing is so difficult that it cannot be discovered by seeking.

An algorithm gives you the instructions directly. A heuristic tells you how to discover the instructions for yourself, or at least where to look for them.

In order to be solved, a problem first of all has to be a problem. What we mean by this is that the translation of a vaguely stated problem into concrete terms permits the crucial separation of...

The problem with meddling, is that for every problem you solve, you create two more.

It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause...

Have fun, think small, don't fear the obvious.

Ask "Why?" as many times as may be necessary to get to the root cause of the problem and then fix it so it can never occur again.

In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered. It is all too easy to see only the surface...