Complex Problems Quotes

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

Problems of 35 years cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

The extreme scarcity of political leaders of any caliber is owing to the fact that they are called upon to decide at any moment, and in detail, problems which the increased size of societies may well have rendered insoluble.

I completely understand why people are concerned about immigration. There's no silver bullet, no one thing you can do to suddenly deal with all the problems and concerns with immigration, and that includes leaving the E.U.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.

We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

Internationally, I propose the radical step of not trying to solve complex political problems with 1,000lb bombs; domestically, I propose they start addressing inequality by paying reparations for slavery. I'm well aware that in a society where war and discrimination are now almost entirely normalised, both options sound like madness.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

The kind of problems we're facing now, no government can fix.

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.

We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.