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Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing
david blaine— Interview with Brett Martin for Time Out New York (April 1-8, 1999, on-line).[1]
Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.
thaddeus stevens— "Subduing the Rebellion" (22 January 1862), as quoted in The Selected Works of Thaddeus Stevens.
Can they solve the problem of the nagging unanswerable question of justification and vocation? Their principle is the traditional one of classical mysticism: by “experiences” (“kicks”) to transcend the nagged and nagging self altogether and get out of one’s skin, to where no questions are asked nor is there any articulate speech to ask them in.
paul goodman— p. 156 (Growing Up Absurd (1956))
It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich.
reinhard heydrich— To his officers on German Police Day (February, 1941), as quoted in Gestapo : Instrument of Tyranny (1956) by Edward Crankshaw, p. 103
If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises...
jacob m. appel— Arborophilia (2005)
At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water—right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.
paolo bacigalupi— "The Tamarisk Hunter", High Country, 26 June 2006
A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.
russell baker— "The Big Problem Binge," The New York Times (1965-03-18)
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born— "Einstein's Statistical Theories" in Albert Einstein : Philosopher-Scientist (1951) edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp, p. 176
Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world.
jacques ellul— From the Vintage paperback (1973), p.xvii
If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn’t the people at the bottom think the same?
michael moorcock— Introduction (p. viii)
When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
madeleine albright— Speech at Harvard forum (April 11, 2007)
Land has lost its original strategic value; military forces are no longer employed primarily to conquer land, but to ensure stable economic, energy and information flows, which constitute the true resources, along with the natural resources. Alongside military hard power, international organization are increasing attempts to use soft power, at regional level, to solve environmental problems that do not pose short-term problems, but which can generate conflicts in the medium-to-long term, such as water-related problems or desertification.
corrado maria daclon— From Geopolitics of Environment, A Wider Approach to the Global Challenges, La Comunità Internazionale, no. 4, (2007)
I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.
theo de raadt— "Interview: Theo de Raadt on Industry and Free Software". The Epoch Times. 2005-07-05. Retrieved on 2007-01-10.
We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.
david guterson— "When Schools Fail Children: An English Teacher Educates His Kids at Home", Harper's Magazine (November 1990)
Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.
geshe kelsang gyatso— Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom (2011)
If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.
merlin mann— meatrobot
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
letty cottin pogrebin— Ch. 1 (Family and Politics (1983))
Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.
joan robinson— Chapter XI, Dynamic Analysis, p. 95
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
ludwig wittgenstein— p. 75e (Culture and Value (1980))
Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.
saul alinsky— Eric Norden, "Saul Alinsky: A candid conversation with the feisty radical organizer," Playboy, 19 (3), March 1972[1]
You seem to be using some sort of logical system where when you get near any explanation, you say: “By definition my problem is insoluble. Now that explanation over there would solve it. But since I’ve defined my problem as insoluble, then by definition that solution doesn’t apply.”
samuel r. delany— Chapter 3 “Avoiding Kangaroos” (p. 123)
Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.
— As translated by Jerome Rothenberg
Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit someone in the face, but nothing in those equations they use will tell them whether or not to throw it…To solve the problem of values we must know what is valuable. Consciousness is the most valuable commodity…To bring values into science, we need to connect science with what is valuable consciousness.
ravi gomatam— An interview with Ravi Gomatam by Thomas Beardy for Clarion Call magazine (Clarion University's newspaper)"Is There Consciousness Within Science?", 1990.
We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.
piet hein— The Only Solution
Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.
vitruvius— Chapter II, Sec. 8
In the literature of problem solving, the topic I am now taking up is called "problem representation." In the past 30 years, a great deal has been learned about how people solve problems by searching selectively through a problem space defined by a particular problem representation. Much less has been learned about how people acquire a representation for dealing with a new problem one they haven't previously encountered.
— Herbert A. Simon, "Bounded rationality and organizational learning." Organization science 2.1 (1991): 125-134.
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, of a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... the future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
jawaharlal nehru— Quoted in Atma Ram, "The Making of Optical Glass in India: Its Lessons for Industrial Development", Proceedings of ihe National Institute of Sciences of India (1961), 27, 564-5.
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.
— "Conversation with Dos Passos," New Leader, Feb 23 1959
Peace is the essential prerequisite because without peace we will be unable to achieve the levels of cooperation, inclusiveness and social equity necessary to solve our global challenges, let alone empower the international institutions needed to regulate the challenges.
— Steve Killelea, Founder of the Global Peace Index in The Study of Industries that Prosper in Peace - the "Peace Industry" (2008).
