A Quote by Howard Gardner

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

Howard Gardner

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Howard Gardner
American - Celebrity
Born: July 11, 1943

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

George Polya

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Sara Paretsky

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Stephen Wolfram

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.

John Foster Dulles

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong

John Foster Dulles

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Edward Leedskalnin

The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

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Craig Federighi

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Pavel Durov

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Gloria Steinem

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John Carmack

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Alex Steffen

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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