Problem Complexity Quotes

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

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

The solution of one problem always brings a few more problems to the surface to be solved, which were hidden underneath the theory of transmission.

When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.

We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

No solution can be more elegant than the problem at which it is aimed allows.

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.

Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so big that their own organization as such, by itself, can never come to a, can never come up with a solution.