Roger Penrose Quotes

I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology.

I love doing the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle, even on the days I can't finish it.

I like confusing people and challenging myself.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.

I'm a puzzle doer.

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

Basically, I like research because research is like to solve the quiz, you know. Always there is a problem, and I have to solve the problem. So I like those patterns. It's almost like research is sort of in a quiz.

Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.