Quotes About Solutions

Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.

Happily, solving problems by intensifying production and increasing complexity does not always yield catastrophic results.

Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied?

Don't confuse the term games of progression with other ideas about progression in games, such as leveling up, difficulty curves, skill trees, and so on. We use Juul's definition of the term: A game of progression is one that offers predesigned challenges, each of which often has exactly one solution, in a fixed (or only slightly variable) sequence.

You really think it's that simple?" I said. "That you can just write a check for two hundred and forty billion dollars and fix all the world's problems?

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

There's no silver bullet. You cannot helicopter people out of poverty.

Suppose your team has come up with some interesting ideas that don't fit under the main issues. What then? You could ignore those points, but that wouldn't help Acme. You could make them issues in their own right, but then you would have too many issues. A good McKinsey issue list contains neither fewer than two nor more than five top-line issues (of course, three is best).

Critics of McKinsey (and management consulting in general) say that the Firm bases its solutions on the most current management fad—the favorite tool in its intellectual toolbox.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong" is the warning posted by H. L. Mencken.

The experts in our society who offer to help us have a kind of general-staff mentality from which massive, top-down solutions are issued to solve our problems. Then when the solutions don't work, we get mired in the nothing-can-be-done swamp. We are first incited into being grandiose and then intimidated into being infantile. But there is another way, the plain way of quiet Christian humility.

It is far easier to deal with people as problems to be solved than to have anything to do with them in community.

When solutions produce problems, when thought flounders in the absence of order, unity, and purpose, when healthy skepticism turns into pathological sarcasm – this is usually when pessimism enters the fray.

In presenting problems without solutions, in posing questions without answers, in retreating to the hermetic, cavernous abode of complaint, pessimism is guilty of that most inexcusable of Occidental crimes – the crime of not pretending it's all for a reason.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.

I think we need a lot less ideology around health care.

The Democrats throw money at the problems, and the Republicans tend to ignore them. The Natural Law Party goes beyond those approaches. It's about true change.

Projects are often started by jumping straight to a solution, even a specific technology. That's the wrong place to begin. You want to start by asking questions and considering alternatives. At the outset, always assume that there is more to learn. Start with the most basic question of all: Why?

I knew that underwater problems had to be solved underwater.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge

How do I keep my drawers from bunching up?

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show Them The Solutions They Will Be Moved To Act