Puzzle Solving Quotes

#1. I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I'm trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.

Sarah Kay

#2. I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

Sylvia Day

#3. Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

Sarah Kay

#4. I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

Warren Spector

#5. When I came to Harvard, I was debating between math and science, and I guess I thought in the end I wanted something that could connect to the real world. I liked puzzle-solving and connections.

Lisa Randall

#6. Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

Alan Turing

#7. Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

#8. But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.

Kami Garcia

#9. He compared the intelligence task to solving a jigsaw puzzle, except that you didn't get the box cover, so you didn't know what the final picture was. And you got only a few pieces at a time, not all of them. And even worse, you always got a bunch of pieces from some other puzzle thrown in.

P. W. Singer

#10. I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.

Paul Theroux

#11. For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

Mohsin Hamid

#12. Winston Breen was solving a puzzle, but then Winston Breen was always solving a puzzle.

Eric Berlin

#13. Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all ...

Vera Nazarian

#14. I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

Karen Thompson Walker

#15. Every person is a puzzle with a password. By solving the puzzle, the potential for emotional and physical intimacy is realized.

Zack Love

#16. It was like solving a complex math puzzle without any promise that an optimal solution existed.

James S.A. Corey

#17. The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.

Steve Hamilton

#18. It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.

Criss Jami

#19. When you make weirdness into a puzzle to be solved, you make LOST

Joseph Fink

#20. A knotty puzzle may hold a scientist up for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already and is not even aware of the puzzle that it might solve.

Isaac Asimov

#21. The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction.

William Zinsser

#22. So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell begin to ring.

Clive Barker

#23. Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

Eric Maskin

#24. I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

Andrew McMahon

#25. Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Iris Johansen

#26. There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

Christopher Bollen

#27. You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

Christopher Bollen

#28. Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss ... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

Brandon Boyd

#29. I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.

Anthony Heald

#30. I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

Marco Beltrami

#31. In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

John Thaw