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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.