Quick Fixes Quotes

Temporary solutions often become permanent problems.

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

How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife?

I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between doing something quickly and doing it right, I often select the speedier option.

The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem.

We should not be focusing on quick solutions. The really important concern for policymakers everywhere is to prevent disasters - that is, the outlier events that matter the most.

Good. Illegal is always faster.

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

Duct tape is not a perfect solution to anything. But with a little creativity, in a pinch, it's an adequate solution to just about everything.

We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown

Most things can be fixed with duct tape and extension cords.

Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

We have to think in a very different sense than the way we think now. We think in terms of quick fixes, that solutions will come out of a few protest demonstrations, and calling upon the government to do something. And we can keep trying to do that, and it won't work.

We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.

People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.

Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

There are no silver bullets.