“To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.” ProblemInformationCommunicationPersonalityCapableHandleProgrammingUsersIntegratedProcessingCoordinationGetting AlongBookkeepingInformation Processing Author:Cliff Shaw
“Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.” MenProblemLawCrimeSummerCapableMen And WomenIntelligentHotResponsibleViolentIceDrySummer DaysViolent CrimesSolved ProblemsHot SummerDry Ice Author:L. Neil Smith
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.” WorldInspirationalProblemMotivationalActionPeaceDifferencesActingPositiveCapableEmpathySelf ImprovementIndiaClimate ChangeSolveChanging The WorldRepublicProblem SolvingNon ViolenceBeing At PeaceOuter WorldsMaking A Difference In The WorldRepublic DayViolence And PeaceWorld ProblemsGlobal Peace Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.” HumansEndsProblemLevelsDevelopmentCapableOrganizationMethodProblem SolvingInquiryInvolvingSustainingAccelerateCollectivitySystems Change Author:David Cooperrider
“Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.” MenKindProblemJobsFacesOpportunityClassTomorrowCapableMeaningfulYesterdayEducatedSatisfyingUpper ClassEducated Man Author:Peter Drucker
“It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live. And only an America which is growing and prospering economically can sustain the worldwide defenses of freedom, while demonstrating to all concerned the opportunities of our system and society.” WorldShouldProblemHomeAmericaChoicesOpportunityNationsSocialJusticePracticeClearGrowingRightsDangerCitizensEqualCapableConcernedStrongerSocial JusticeComplexesDefenseEducatedOur FutureEqual RightsDemonstratingTacklingComplex ProblemsProspering Author:John F. Kennedy
“Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.” YearsKindChildrenProblemAgeSchoolFiveTenNormalCapableAll KindsVaryVariablesNonverbalSchool WorkNeurological Disorders Author:Temple Grandin
“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.” IfsArtProblemOrderGivenResultsCitiesMistakeApproachCapableArt IsProfoundConfusionNeighborhoodWorks Of ArtSubstitutesAttemptingConvertingArt And LifeTaxidermy Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.” MenMayArtImportantUseFeelingsProblemFormCoursesLiteratureEmotionMoralStyleBrokenTasteCapableArt IsTemptationChiefsInnocenceConsiderationGood ManDistractionAestheticTrafficSoberSeductionPuritanAmerican LiteratureGusto Book:Prejudices Second Series Source: Prejudices Second Series
“More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is not preparing us adequately to attend the rich banquet of life. Certainly the young people of today have mastered the use of technology and are capable of solving complex scientific and mathematical problems, but who and what do these serve if they cannot think for themselves? If they have no understanding of the meaning and purpose of their own lives? If they do not know who they are as individuals?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsHelpingUseProblemTodayYoungPurposeIndividualUnderstandingEducationTechnologyRichModernCapableComplexesEducationalAccessMathematicalPreparingBanquetsMathematical ProblemsAccess To EducationEducation TodayUse Of Technology Author:Matthew Kelly
“The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.” WorldProblemChallengesSeriousCapableMeetingsWideRangeAgencyInherentUnitsSalvage Author:Norman Cousins
“First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece.... It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.” IfsThinkingFirstsBelieveUseProblemKidsI BelieveParentMorningIssuesPiecesDoorsAirFiguresSkillsCapableToolsBalls Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
“Chinese movies are not just about making Chinese local movies. It's about the Chinese money, the Chinese creativeness participating in a global movie. The problem is not the government not supporting this, they of course support this big time. The problem is whether other people are capable of doing the same thing I'm doing.” PeopleProblemBigsGovernmentCoursesSupportCapableLocalsChineseParticipatingCreativeness Author:Bruno Zheng Wu
“As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.” PeopleProblemRealizingCapableBelieve In YourselfInner StrengthMakes You StrongerZahir Author:Paulo Coelho
“Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness ot to answer any question we are capable of asking.” MindHardProblemAnswersDivineCapableAngelPhilosophicalAskingSolveMeaninglessOrganismsEquipmentHomo SapiensCognitive Author:Steven Pinker
“I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.” IfsWorldFeelsSelfProblemCompassionHonestPlanetsSelf LoveCapableMajorityDisappearLove And Compassion Author:Moby
“I think a lot of us who had these oddly shaped childhoods, in some ways we're hyper-capable. We're able to take care of ourselves in a lot of ways but it's like we're missing a piece. When everyone went to school to learn how to be a regular person we were sick that day. We compensate other ways. Alcohol and drugs is one of those ways. Instead of learning how to cope with our problems and deal with hardship and deal with anger, we just decide to get drunk and not care.” ThinkingWayPersonsProblemCareAbleSchoolDealsPiecesChildhoodMissingDrugCapableSickTake CareAlcoholDrunkHardshipHyper Author:Bucky Sinister
“Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their redemption through modernity.” PeopleProblemWaitingMillionsCapableRedemptionModernity Author:Pankaj Mishra
“We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.” ProblemKidsCapableProblem Solving Author:Ross W. Greene
“In entirely unrelated news, there's a new proposal to mandate coverage for gay infertility. The problem is that gay infertility is just biology. Two men and two women are not infertile. They're just not capable of impregnating each other. This isn't a medical problem. It's a mental problem.” MenTwoProblemGayNewsCapableMedicalBiologyProposalCoverageMandatesInfertilityMedical Problems Author:David Horowitz
“There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher rates of reproduction for people capable of solving scientific problems or creating new scientific ideas. So if, in fact, the science-forming capacities evolved for other reasons, it would not be too surprising if those particular structures that have developed proved to be rather special in their nature, reflecting the contingencies of their evolution or the working of physical law.” PeopleIfsMindIdeasReasonFactsProblemLawHappenedSpecialParticularEvolutionHigherCreatingCapableCapacityPressureStructureRateSurprisingReflectingReproductionContingency Author:Noam Chomsky
“One problem of the String Theory is that it's kind of a theory which can explain what the problems are, but the problems are such that you can't even pin it down and say this is exactly what it predicts, so lets go out and test it. So, it's not even capable of being wrong, or being falsified, or being showed to be wrong.” KindProblemLetting GoCapableBeing WrongString Theory Author:Peter Woit
“Most of us are flawed, complicated people, and we're all trying very hard to disguise that or hide it from the public. Ultimately, we respond to someone who's capable of doing heroic things but has issues or problems in their life that they can't seem to resolve. I believe audiences identify with that. All of us have those secrets and those things that we wish we could improve about ourselves. And when you have someone who's heroic and flawed, I think it makes us feel better about ourselves.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveProblemI BelieveWishSecretAudienceCapableComplicatedResolveHeroicFeel BetterDisguiseFlawed Author:Treat Williams
“I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to be proud of being a man, which wasn't something I was feeling.” PeopleMenWorldFeelingsProblemStruggleCollegeProudCapableAcceptedArtisticBe ProudNormMacho Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers. So few people know what they're capable of. At forty-two I'd never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem - my chronic inability to astonish myself.” PeopleKnowsLittlesTwoDoneProblemPassionMy OwnSpaceMetsCapableBreathsFingersSizeFortySmallestInabilityBeads Book:The Mermaid Chair Source: The Mermaid Chair
“You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.” BelieveProblemHappensRoomsCapableCan NotWhatever Happens Author:Gene Kranz
“The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism - which foretells a coming change. As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.” IdeasStatesProblemFallSocialFailingFailureCapablePropagandaRelySocial ProblemsScepticism Author:Stefan Molyneux
“As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.” IfsKnowsWorldProblemUniverseProcessNaturalDesignProduceEvolutionPromiseCreatingCapableInfiniteComplexesCriticsNotionDefinitionsCreatorBiologist Author:Sam Harris