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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]
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
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))
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
My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it.
al gore— Academy Award acceptance speech (21 February 2007)
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)
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.
Joseph Wood Krutch— 1949 The Twelve Seasons,'February'.
Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.
anthony stafford beer— p. 117 (Chapter 5, It Works)
It is as though a star throws the whole secret history of its being into its spectrum, and we have only to learn how to read it aright in order to solve the most abstruse problems of the physical Universe.
herbert dingle— Introduction, page xxv
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.
john dos passos— "Conversation with Dos Passos," New Leader, Feb 23 1959
As far as my own experience is concerned, I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper, and make lines, tones, and shapes with no conscious aim; bur as my mind takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea becomes conscious and crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begin to take place.
henry moore— p. 255 (The sculptor speaks (1937))
I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
modest mussorgsky— MS dedication to Boris Godunov, January 21, 1874. [1]
Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive — that is, as immodest — as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.
edward sapir— Fashion (1931), p. 140
In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.
valerie solanas— p. 6 (SCUM MANIFESTO (1967))
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
Isaac Asimov— Section 3, Chapter 10, p. 236
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society--its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.
Peter Drucker— p. 107-108
I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
al gore— On global warming, as quoted in "Al Revere: An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore" by David Roberts in Girst.org (9 May 2006)
Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction.
donald norman— Ch. 6, p. 180
Principle of causality is fundamental to human thinking, and it has been observed experimentally that this assumption leads to complex hypothesis formation by human subjects attempting to solve comparatively simple problems involving a causal randomly generated events
— Brian R. Gaines (1976) "On the Complexity of Causal Models" in: International Journal of General Systems, 1977.
Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.
— Part I, Chapter 5, Mechanistic Modelling, p. 108
Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.
— Part 2, Chapter 10, Closing The Little Circle, p. 121
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert A. Heinlein, in Time Enough for Love, 1973; cited in: QFinance, the ultimate resource London: Bloomsbury. 2009. p. 1760.
Management science is also known as management technology or industrial management or control technology or control technique. In the past, the management of industrial companies had been executed just by the intuition of capable and experienced personnel. However, if we can solve the problems occurring in management on a scientific basis, management can be executed not just by an intuition but by scientific studies.
— S?go Okamura (1994) History of Electron Tubes. p. 73
"Gordon Brown thinks you can solve climate change by changing your lightbulbs. I think you should solve climate change by changing the government"
siân berry— Green Party of England and Wales Principle Speaker [4]
