There's an oral-history interview of Feynman where the interviewer brings up his notebooks, saying something like "where you recorded your results" -- Feynman i

There's an oral-history interview of Feynman where the interviewer brings up his notebooks, saying something like "where you recorded your results" -- Feynman interrupts like "no, it's where I worked them out". He's emphatic about it after being questioned again. The "Feynman algorithm" is an OK joke, and gets at something real, but I think it smacks a little too much of putting words in the guy's mouth. It has a flavor of mystification that goes against the spirit of a lot that he said in his lectures. There was a lecture explicitly on problem-solving methods in the "Tips on Physics" volume.