Claude Shannon’s “Creative Thinking” Speech (2017)

In other words, you have to have some kind of a drive, some kind of a desire to find out the answer, a desire to find out what makes things tick. In other words, there is continually a slight irritation when things don’t look quite right; and I think that dissatisfaction in present days is a key driving force in good scientists. If you have experience in the field represented, that you are working in, you may perhaps know of a somewhat similar problem, call it P’, which has already been solved and which has a solution, S’, all you need to do — all you may have to do is find the analogy from P’ here to P and the same analogy from S’ to S in order to get back to the solution of the given problem.

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