Bruce Nauman Quotes

There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one.

Most people don't grab the right ideas or don't know what to do with them.

One of the fastest ways to find the solution to an issue or challenge you are facing is to ask the right questions.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I want to get people thinking.

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

My goal is to invite readers to think along with me and draw their own conclusions.

I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less confidence that we'll be able to find a consensus about which ones are right without experiment.

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

To think is to differ.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.