Eric S. Raymond Quotes

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

A 'problem' is nothing more than a gorgeous opportunity to discover an even better solution.

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

With thought, all problems can be resolved.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.

If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.

Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.