One of my old professors (wasn't even my professor but I chatted
   with him at lot back in 1990/1991...I wanted to learn LISP from
   him but I had to go through pre-requisites first like Pascal and
   I had to leave college due to lack of $$$ before I could get to
   his AI / neural networking courses). Anyway, he'd occasionally
   send me things in the mail (snail mail) through the years. About
   16 years ago, he sent me an article about somebody offering a
   $1,000,000 prize (or $100,000 prize?) for solving the
   Minesweeper problem. A little yellow sticky on it said, "You
   don't think like the others do. You can solve this". Well, I
   did. But I knew they wouldn't like my answer and I wouldn't get
   the money. I do think differently. They wanted an algorithmic
   solution. But my answer was simpler: a social solution, a
   hacking solution an "attack the problem from the side" solution.
   Any problem is solvable. Where the issue comes in is: What
   answers will you refuse to accept?