Quotes about Innovative Problem-solving

Pragmatism allows a person to take things that others would consider problems or distractions and see them as opportunities.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

If you choose to live in solutions, the world eagerly awaits your dreams and provides every tool and opportunity you need to turn them into reality

Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...

Actually, everyone in India does some jugaad in their lives, whether in school, college, marriages, work etc. And most of us have different jugaads for different situations.

Engineers and businesspeople are trained to solve problems. Designers are trained to discover the real problems. A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.

When you hit a wall, try to dig a tunnel beneath or fly above!

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works." —Alan J. Perlis

On the frontier," he had written in 1965, "man must often chart his course by stars he has never seen. Rarely does one recognize or discover a complex problem, formulate it, and lay out a procedure that will solve it—all in one great flash of insight.

There are no problems, only solutions.

Non ci sono problemi solo soluzioni.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.

One must focus on solution not on obstacle.

He responded with a tale about how, after spending hours in late 1937 queuing at a Jersey City pier to unload his truck, he realized that it would be quicker simply to hoist the entire truck body on board. From this incident, we are meant to believe, came his decision eighteen years later to buy a war-surplus tanker and equip it to carry 33-foot-long containers.

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

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

The technology never reverses itself. It creates new technology to confront new sets of problems.

If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented to perform in the place of real money.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

the most effective problem-finders become adept at searching for and identifying patterns.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

Don't tell them how to do it!  Just teach them the principles of Lean, challenge them, and let them do it."   John Miller – Gemba Research