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• I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them, but he knows also that he can escape from day to day and stay alive, and he does that because his work gives him a kick.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Giving, Doe, Alive

  Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “Bourgeois”, Vintage

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• The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

  Donald Barthelme

  Tasks, Problem, Propose

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• Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other
  problem will solve itself.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Firsts, Problem, Existence

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• The power that dominates cannot solve world problems. The power that loves can solve world problems.

  Sri Chinmoy

  World, Problem, World Problems

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• Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Distance, Rain

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 21, 2016

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• One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Information, Use

  "The Road Ahead". Book by Book by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson, 1995.

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• Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems.  Without discipline we can solve nothing.  With only some discipline we can solve only some problems.  With total discipline we can solve all problems.

  M. Scott Peck

  Discipline, Tools, Problem

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Winning does solve everything.

  Joe Sakic

  Winning, Doe

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• If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?

  Harvey Jackins

  Beauty, Art, Hell

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• Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Problem, Pursue

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• The biggest problem about looking at a problem is looking at it. When we finally find or face it, it becomes harmless and easy to solve.

  Robert Scheid

  Faces, Problem, Easy

  Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”

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• The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

  Milton Friedman

  People, Way, Profitable

  "Why it isn't Necessary to 'Throw the Bums Out'". Milton Friedman's speech about changing Congress, www.youtube.com. circa 1977.

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• The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Helping, Problem, Worthwhile

  Richard P. Feynman's letter to Koichi Mano (February 3, 1966), as quoted in "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman" edited by Michelle Feynman and Timothy Ferris (pp. 198, 201), April 5, 2005; also quoted in "Wise Man" by Freeman Dyson, www.nybooks.com. October 20, 2005.

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• We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Able, Today

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• 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

  Issues, Trying, Sometimes

  "Albright Calls for Diplomacy in Iraq" by Brenda C. Maldonado, www.thecrimson.com. April 12, 2007.

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• You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely - all of them, not just a few. Most people are trained in one model - economics, for example - and try to solve all problems in one way. You know the old saying: to the man with a hammer, the world looks like a nail. This is a dumb way of handling problems.

  Charlie Munger

  Men, Ideas, Discipline

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• Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.

  Wilbur Ross

  Banking, World, Regulation

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• It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.

  Larry Wall

  Problem, Easy, Shotguns

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• Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

  Chip Kidd

  Design, Problem, Given

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• To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

  Laura Riding

  Art, Problem, Poet

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• A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Ideas, Problem, Multiple

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• I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.

  Nelson DeMille

  Want, Mystery, Bother

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• When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product.

  Jonathan Ive

  Numbers, Sight, Trying

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.

  Peter Thiel

  Unique, Technology, Competition

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.123, Crown Business

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• 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.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Thinking, Engineering, Ideas

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