"No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it."
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"I wouldn't want to manufacture cigarettes. But if I owned - we do own Costco. Do they sell them? Yes. So I don't have a problem owning stock in that. But I just wouldn't want to - I wouldn't want to do it myself. I basically think, if anything is sufficiently antisocial, society should do something about it. But that's a separate question. But - and I don't think there's any company that I have seen that's 100 percent pure."
"My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem."
"We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new problems to solve."
"Laugh at your problems; everybody else does."
"Know how to solve every problem that has been solved."
"Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice."
"Intelligence is the ability to solve problems"
"When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious."
"Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. Realistically, the more problems we have and the larger they are, the greater our value to our employer."
"The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems."
"Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme."
"I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled."
"Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first."
"I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won't have problems."
"Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others."
"The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want."
"The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily."
"Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics."
"No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it."