Address Quote by John O. Brennan

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

“Real problems aren’t number-shaped, they’re people-shaped.”

— Stephen Fry

To solve a problem, you have to be able to state what the problem is or at least say the name.

— Donald Trump

How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions.

— John Daly

Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.

— William Feather

Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

— Herbert Simon

Look at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. Figure out the implications of the problem. Implement the solution.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Problem-solving is about seeing a problem and actually finding a solution to that problem.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Perhaps the most useful approach for defining the problem well is structuring it as a measurable variable.”

— Nat Greene

Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

— John von Neumann

Often how you define the problem will determine whether or not you're able to find a real solution.

— Gordon Hempton