Chip Kidd Quotes

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.

If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.

Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.

You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

To solve a problem, you have to be able to state what the problem is or at least say the name.

Most problems precisely defined are already partially solved.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

We cannot solve a problem until we understand the full extent of the problem.

You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

a problem well put is half solved.

Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it

You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem.

If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.

Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

When you have a problem, the first thing to do in addressing it is to honestly identify it.

How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.

What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.