Naomi Alderman Quotes

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

I was particularly good at math and science.

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

The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data.

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're a very difficult person, and we were having trouble answering your questions. Why are you asking so many questions?'

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.

I think like a detective.

My talent is numbers.

Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

I'm a puzzle doer.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

My business is the analytical framework.

I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in.

I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.

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