Quotes about Innovative Problem-solving

On 'MythBusters,' a lot of what we do does not fall into any category of things we have ever done before. There's a lot of problem solving to figure out how to even approach a given problem. A background in science or engineering helps a lot.

For me, it is about having a passion for solving a big problem and leaving a huge impact. Once you have that, everything else falls into place.

There are some things I cannot do as I did before the accident. Trying to do them the same way was impossible, and I was getting frustrated. Then one day I said to myself that I had to relearn those things and do them in a different way and see what was possible, and how it could be achieved.

Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.

You were challenged beyond the bounds of what could be done, and found a path to make it true.

Alicia Gris sees what the rest don't see. Her mind works differently from the rest. Where everyone else sees a locked door, she sees a key. Where others lose track, she picks up the trail. It's a gift, one could say. And the best thing is that no one sees her coming.

Albert Einstein: 'We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.'" He

have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

There are three related ideas, which I will elaborate as we go on. They are imagination, which is the process of bringing to mind things that are not present to our senses; creativity, which is the process of developing original ideas that have value, and innovation, which is the process of putting new ideas into practice.

You can think of creativity as a conversation between what we're trying to figure out and the media we are using.

Yes, I'm just a developer, so I try to find the simplest possible solutions. ... If you go to a bakery, the bakery isn't playing with five million different tools just because the old flour became too boring after a while. - Adam Bien

Picture this scenario: You are in an organization where everyone is making decisions, solving important problems every day, and teaching others what they've learned," Erik says. "Your adversary is an organization where only the top leaders make decisions. Who will win? Your victory is inevitable.

Once you get into the problem... you see that it's complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's where most people stop, and the solutions tend to work for a while. But the really great person will keep going, find the underlying problem, and come up with an elegant solution that works on every level.

I know. A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. And you, Lee, have got to worry even if you must kill yourself to invent something to worry about.

So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

Being able to change the lives of people around me motivates me. I always try to build technology and innovations that solve problems, simplify people's lives, and give others what they want.

Overnight, the city managed to procure thousands of cardboard boxes, fifteen hundred hard hats, a few thousand rolls of packing tape, and the services of Eric Lundquist, a mechanical engineer and former popcorn distributor who had reinvented himself as a expert in drying out wet things. The notion of putting the books in with groceries didn't faze Lundquist, since he'd freeze-dried his first salvaged books alongside a summer's worth of peas and carrots from his garden.

A college boy from Massachusetts named Eli Whitney came south... Eli liked machines, and he liked solving problems.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan, if this new plan fails to work, replace it, in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which DOES WORK.

The future belongs to the puzzle solvers.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

If you eliminate all the logical solutions to a problem, then the illogical solution—even though it's impossible—has to be the right one.

When devastating things happen, creativity and ingenuity often thrive.