A Quote by Eric Maskin

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

Eric Maskin

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Devising Gives Kick Kind Like Lot Mechanism Puzzle Same Solving

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Eric Maskin
American - Economist
Born: December 12, 1950

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.

Shigeru Miyamoto

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

Christopher Bollen

And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.

Alicia Keys

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

Brandon Boyd

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

John Thaw

I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

Marco Beltrami

'Toybox' is that kind of game that will stretch your mental capacity by doing very simple things like solving an easy puzzle of shooting aliens. You'll just need to do everything at the same time to make it through alive. Just to make things tricky, the tasks change every week so you can't get used to any set.

Rob Manuel

Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.

Sarah Shahi

The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction.

William Zinsser

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

Sylvia Day

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

Andrew McMahon

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.

Joko Beck

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.