More Than One Way to Do It - Lauren Ipsum: A Story About Computer Science and Other Improbable Things - page 40

He certainly didn't look how Laurie thought a Composer should look! But Tinker had recom-
mended him, so Laurie handed him the IOU.
“I'm, um, trying to find the shortest path through all the towns. Can you help me?”
“Wonderful! Interesting!” Rustic said. “Tinker sent you to the right place, miss. Improbable
we can do right away. Impossible, by Tuesday at the latest.”
“But if it's impossible—” Laurie began.
“Only improbable,” corrected Rustic.
“If it's improbable , how do you do it?”
“By shifting your point of view,” said Rustic. “Instead of looking for an answer that fits your
problem, you imagine an answer and look for a problem to fit it.”
“But you can't just change the problem, can you?”