“The way I think about puzzles is a real puzzle, is something you may not ever figure out.”

Q&A session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK9nxanN9BM&t=2060s at Graz Technical University, November 2017

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American video game designer and programmer 1971

Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer

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“They point out that leadership is not even the more interesting hand; it's no puzzle to understand why people want to lead. The real puzzle is why people are willing to follow.”

Jonathan Haidt book The Righteous Mind

The Righteous Mind (2012)

“A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

"On Denoting", Mind, Vol. 14, No. 56 (October 1905), pp. 479–493; as reprinted in Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901–1950, (1956)
1900s

“By the way, Mr. Premier: Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you meet are illiterate or covered head to toe in black burkas or looking for buildings to blow up? It’s a puzzle, isn’t it? If you ever figure these people out, send me an e-mail.”

Aravind Adiga book The White Tiger

The First Night.
The White Tiger (2008)

“I think science is best taught as a puzzle to be solved.”

Steven Novella (1964) American neurologist, skepticist

SGU, Podcast #187, February 11th, 2009 http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/187 <br class="br">The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Podcast, 2000s