44 Solutions Quotes

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Never cut what you can untie.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

If you have some problem in your life and you need to deal with it then use religion it's fine. I use Google.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens) and human free will (in the factual rather than theological sense) are conjoined concepts, and no better evidence can be produced than the 'experimental' production of markedly different solutions in identical environments.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

Science, by itself, provides no panacea for individual, social, and economic ills. It can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

If you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.

Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin! ~ Churchy to Howland

We hadn't invented 'Not Invented Here', yet.

If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.

On New Years resolutions: 'I need to get like 34% more hyphy this year, shred 17.4% more often, use 2,000 more notes in each solo, my guitar needs to shoot flames that are at least 10 feet longer than they used to be, aaaand probably 1 more pound of lasers.'

'The foundation in which the Bill was introduced was for the Government to offer a political solution that was legally binding, because if the Government had not introduced the Unity Bill, the investigations will never end. Trial after trial and the list goes on. About 2500 people have been investigated. Those who turned up in Parliament was close to 20,000 people. I mean, if 10,000 to 20,000 people are going to be investigated, God knows when it will end.' (8 July 2005)

Patched-up diplomatic solutions designed to answer the needs of the moment rarely last, and as they unravel they can actually make things worse.

The same equations have the same solutions. (Thus when you have solved a mathematical problem, you can re-use the solution in another physical situation. Feynman was skilled in transforming a problem into one that he could solve.)

Later variant: For many years now, you and I have been shushed like children and told there are no simple answers to the complex problems which are beyond our comprehension. Well, the truth is, there are simple answers, they just are not easy ones.

There are immutable Islamic principles which order relations between people, but there is no Islamic economic, social or political structure which cannot be changed... Nothing which can make the world a better place can be rejected out of hand as non-Islamic; ... In order to be Islamic, a solution must fulfill two conditions: it must be maximally efficient and maximally humane. ibid., p. 31

This ain't bout talkin bout problems, I bring solutions/Where's the restitution, stipulated through the constitution

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Small change can often be found under seat cushions.

I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.