Bob Hoskins: What problem are you still trying to solve?

The question

What problem are you still trying to solve?

Originally asked

Lifehacker, to people about their working day, How I Work

Lifehacker repeatedly used this exact closing prompt in its named How I Work questionnaire.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Bob Hoskins

English actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I just got fandangled into it.

Lynn Barber, The Guardian, 15 December 2001 source ↗

Others on this question

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David Hare Playwright and screenwriter

I would like to write a play which doesn’t disappoint me 20 years later.

Recorded Rob McGibbon, The Definite Article, Rob McGibbon, 27 August 2011 source ↗

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Developmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995

we know the fish, we know the worm, we know the fly, but we don’t know the links between and we don’t know, when we go back to the branches in evolution, we really don’t know what happened there when they branched and how they divert and what is the major drive for evolution.

Recorded Marika Griehsel, Interview at the 53rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 30 June–4 July 2003, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 July 2003 source ↗

Tom Lubbock Art critic

The mystery of summoning up words. Where are they in the mind, in the brain? They appear to be an agency from nowhere. They exist somewhere in our ground or in our air. They come from unknown darkness. From a place we normally don't think about.

Recorded The Observer, from the journals he kept between 2008 and 2010, 7 November 2010 source ↗

Shinya Yamanaka Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012

we can select one gene out of those 20,000 genes, and completely destroy that one particular gene so that we can understand the function of that particular gene. I got very interested in that technology. It was 1992 or 1993 when I graduated from my Ph.D. school. So I decided to study — I decided to learn about knockout mouse technology. But at that time in Japan, only a few scientists were working on knockout mouse technology

Recorded Academy of Achievement interviewer, Academy of Achievement interview, 2008 source ↗