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.
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
Our experience was that when we closed the door to democracy, maybe for a short while there was quiet and security, but in the long run we suffered a lot. Our closing the door to democracy did not settle the problems of our country. The problems only accumulated.
One thing I like to do is visit technical forums and ask for help regarding an entirely fictitious problem I'm having with my software. When I receive help, I say, 'Nope. Didn't work.' If they guide me to a button to click, I say, 'Nope. Can't see it.' Sometimes I just reply with nothing but 'Nope,' and it drives them up the wall.
The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.
Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
For a later expression of this idea see Henry A. Kissinger {610343}.
A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary.
Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.
You solve a problem then get a new one in return.
In America, we are living in a country where the deep economic problems have not been solved and arguably, in many cases, haven't been addressed.
Laws against consensual activities are too randomly enforced to be either a deterrent or fair …. Problems sometimes associated with consensual activities cannot be solved while they’re crimes.
We're surrounded by big problems and people who have been attacking the same big problems for years and years and years and years, and often they're not getting anywhere.
Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.
If you listen to Hillary 30 years ago and Hillary today, she's still complaining about the same things. She's still promising to fix the same things. She's still suggesting we need to address the same things. It tells me that in 30 years, she has not solved anything. In 30 years, she hasn't fixed anything. In 30 years, she hasn't made anything better.
There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.
In general, when any of us get outraged by relatively minor pop-cultural phenomena, I suspect it's a way of relaxing and not focussing on more daunting and intractable problems, whether personal or social.