Florian Cajori book A History of Mathematics
Source: A History of Mathematics (1893), p. 248; As cited in: Moritz (1914, 155); Persons and anecdotes.
The Great Approach (2001) p. 19
Florian Cajori book A History of Mathematics
Source: A History of Mathematics (1893), p. 248; As cited in: Moritz (1914, 155); Persons and anecdotes.
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
On "eyeing" for Mars, IAC 2016 meeting, presentation on sustainable Mars colonization.
Shigeru Miyamoto (1952) Japanese video game designer and producer
Source: Interview with Shigeru Miyamoto http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/shigeru-miyamoto-interview Eurogamer.net, published on 31 March 2010
“Design is really a special case of problem solving.”
Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 198; Cited in: Eddie Norman, Urry (1995) Advanced design and technology. p. 65-66.
Context: Design is really a special case of problem solving. One wants to bring about a desired state of affairs. Occasionally one wants to remedy some fault but more usually one wants to bring about something new. For that reason design is more open ended than problem solving. It requires more creativity. It is not so much a matter of linking up a clearly defined objective with a clearly defined starting position (as in problem solving) but more a matter of starting out from a general position in the direction of a general objective
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
letter to Koichi Mano (3 February 1966); published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman (2005), p. 198, 201<br>also quoted by Freeman Dyson in "Wise Man" http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18350, The New York Review of Books (20 October 2005) <br class="br">Context: The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. … No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.
Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science
Colin Powell in My American Journey (1995)
Misattributed
U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher
Stopped in Our Tracks, Book Two: Excerpts from U.G.'s Dialogues (2005) by K. Chandrasekhar