Are Your Lights On?
AS YOU WANDER ALONG THE WEARY PATH OF PROBLEM DEFINITION, CHECK BACK HOME ONCE IN A WHILE TO SEE IF YOU HAVEN'T LOST YOUR WAY.
Sally Cox • Are Your Lights On?
IF A PERSON IS IN A POSITION TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT A PROBLEM, BUT DOESN'T HAVE THE PROBLEM, THEN DO SOMETHING SO HE DOES.
Sally Cox • Are Your Lights On?
THE TRICKIEST PART OF CERTAIN PROBLEMS IS JUST RECOGNIZING THEIR EXISTENCE.
Sally Cox • Are Your Lights On?
The clever student "reads" the exam with an eye to its progenitor. If you don't give the professor the answer he wants, you're a fool.
Sally Cox • Are Your Lights On?
HOW COULD WE CHANGE THE PROBLEM STATEMENT TO MAKE THE SOLUTION DIFFERENT?
Sally Cox • Are Your Lights On?
DON'T LEAP TO CONCLUSIONS, BUT DON'T IGNORE YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION.
Sally Cox • Are Your Lights On?
IF YOU CAN'T THINK OF AT LEAST THREE THINGS THAT MIGHT BE WRONG WITH YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROBLEM, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM.
Sally Cox • Are Your Lights On?
MORAL ISSUES TEND TO MELT IN THE HEAT OF A JUICY PROBLEM TO SOLVE.
Sally Cox • Are Your Lights On?
To be true to yourself, in this problem-resolving business, you must consider moral questions before you get close to a solution, or even a definition, and thereby begin to lose your sensibility. Such consideration will never waste your time, for problem-resolving can never be a morally neutral activity—no matter how much it fascinates its practiti
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