“One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations... or emancipation of a nation or race or class... this is the belief that somewhere... there is a final solution.” IdeasIndividualBeliefNationsJusticeRaceClassProgressGenerationsAtheismSolutionsResponsibleHistoricalFinalsPositive AtheismFuture GenerationSlaughterEmancipationGreat Historical Author:Isaiah Berlin
“Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.” FeelsPlayInterestJusticeProgressSolutionsFairsCongressCorporateFrustratedFair Play Author:E. L. Doctorow
“The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.” MenEndsPhilosophyProblemLanguageGrowsExistenceProgressAtheismHe ManGeniusShapesSolutionsMusicalDenyTheologyInfidelityGovernanceOrderlyEpochSceptic Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.” MenArtWarProblemTurnsAbilityMoralPovertyProgressMankindSurvivalSolutionsHarmonyInjusticeSolvePracticalsDependentArt Of LivingScientific Progress Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.” LittlesEndsMomentsProblemProgressHigherSolutionsFlowImprovementMasteryPulling Author:Daniel H. Pink
“The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.” FirstsMadeWould BeCareTodayEffortStepsProgressHumourTheoryDisciplineDiseaseSolutionsPaidManagementWorkersDemonSoftwareEngineeringFirst StepsPersistentCleanlinessGermsReplacementsSoftware EngineeringGreat Effort Author:Fred Brooks
“And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.” YearsFirstsSaidLostProgressPositionCostSolutionsIncreaseMotorCost Of LivingGeneral Motors Author:Leonard Woodcock
“The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".” BelieveMightEyeProcessProgressPlansImpossibleFailingArmsSolutionsEvidenceConsequenceRegardSakeNuclearNegotiationUrgentNuclear Arms Author:Mona Charen
“A lot of environmental and biological science depends on technology to progress. Partly I'm talking about massive server farms that help people crunch genetic data - or atmospheric data. But I also mean the scientific collaborations that the Internet makes possible, where scientists in India and Africa can work with people in Europe and the Americas to come up with solutions to what are, after all, global problems.” PeopleMeanHelpingProblemTalkingTechnologyProgressDependsInternetSolutionsEuropeScientistIndiaEnvironmentalCome UpDataMassiveFarmsCollaborationServerCrunchBiological Science Author:Annalee Newitz
“Thus, true long-term change is brought about not by destructive passion of the moment but by well-reasoned constructive action. Violent shock of Armageddon that leaves nothing in its wake but a blank slate is not a solution, only a postponement of progress.” WellsLongMomentsActionPassionTermProgressSolutionsViolentLong TermShockDestructiveBlankConstructiveSlateArmageddonBlank SlatesPostponement Author:Vera Nazarian
“In the business world, there are systems and processes for just about everything else. Yet creativity and innovation, arguably THE most important aspects of progress, are often left to happen by chance. The system provides a scaffolding for creative support and exploration, yet is open enough to avoid curbing creativity or outputting cookie-cutter solutions.” WorldImportantEnoughChanceCreativitySupportCreativeProgressSolutionsInnovationExplorationScaffolding Author:Josh Linkner
“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” ProblemFacesDecisionProgressSolutionsEconomicsCivil RightsReincarnationFace To FacePrecarious Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“I have a sense of mission on this climate crisis, and I'm trying to pour all the energy I have into it. And I hope that I, along with others, can catalyze the emergence of real solutions to the climate crisis. I think we're making a lot of progress. I think we're going to win this, but it matters how quickly we win it. So I'm focused on that.” ThinkingTryingRealWinningEnergyProgressSolutionsCrisisFocused Author:Al Gore
“In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.” MenDecisionBusinessProgressHonestSolutionsFinalsDeedsAnalysisGenerousGood DeedsUtteranceTough DecisionsHonest WorkKept Woman Author:Clare Boothe Luce