Portia Doubleday Quotes

To solve the Cube, you need special skills and understanding. For example, pattern recognition is very important to solve the Cube.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

I do think in numbers. My mind works that way.

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And that's what Marvin does, too. He visualizes. He sees things in his mind so well.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

I'm very left-brain.

Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.

Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation.