Mao Zedong Quotes

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.

It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

If you don’t understand how problems came to be, how are you going to know how to fix them?

When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

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

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

You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem.

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

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

Ask "why" until there is no more "why."

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

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

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

I'm very good at deconstructing. I'm a very good troubleshooter for why something is unlikely to work. And most everything is unlikely to work.

I'm big on research.

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

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

I really like research.

I'm the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think.