Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes

I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.

If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show.

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

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.

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

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.

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

I like confusing people and challenging myself.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

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

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.

The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then several reasoners might be better than one. But reasoning isn't like hauling rocks, it's like, it's like racing, where a single, galloping Barbary steed easily outruns a hundred wagon-pulling horses.

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created