Quotes about Innovative Problem-solving

Tony Wagner recently said, "There's no competitive advantage today in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know." And,

What matters, though, is not the space you're put in to work; what matters is the work you do in it. The Manhattan Project, the World War II race to develop the atomic bomb, also started out under a football stadium. Beneath the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi built a crude fission reactor, brought its uranium fuel to critical mass, and set off a chain reaction that changed the world. We

the ability of the person to figure things out, to learn, to think critically and solve problems is more important.

We're all designers now. It's time to get good at it.

After all, computers play chess mindlessly – by exhaustively searching the consequences of all possible moves – but humans achieve a similar-looking functionality in a completely different way, by creative and enjoyable thought.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible

We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation.

Everybody at the company has the freedom - and really, the expectation - to critically look at how it can be better and then invent ways to make it better.

Throughout Pixar's history, we've had major meltdowns and crises. It's happened throughout our history: you reach a certain point, it doesn't work, and you start all over again.

Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.

Imagination is an instrument of survival.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems

Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.

The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit.

It's amazing what you can do when you get creative.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

If there's a problem, there's a solution.

I converted a problem into an opportunity.

While the Rat attacked the door with his stick, the Mole sprang up at the bell-pull, clutched it and swung there, both feet well off the ground