Andrew Grove Quotes

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.

Temporary solutions often become permanent problems.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

I think our problems are inherently unsolvable. We need to change our genetic make-up or create computers that will think us out of it. I don't think humans are able to deal with what we have.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

There is no silver bullet. I know people in Washington want grand solutions for everything.

Doing the simple thing first doesn't mean your solution will work forever.

We have to be about finding long-term solutions to our biggest challenges.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

We look for partners who are solving a problem for us. If they've already solved it, we'd much rather try to partner with them than try to rebuild it.

Throwing money on the fire is normally not the solution to every problem. You put the fire out by listening to the people who are smarter than you are.

The design is done when the problem goes away.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

With thought, all problems can be resolved.

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.

Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.

Success is a collection of problems solved.

Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? Will towns tole lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants?... I think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. The answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions.

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.

I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies for addressing the root causes and then go about solving them.