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“I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize that you could have done it better in the first place, that you could have found an architecture that would make it easier to transform and grow the code. And this is terribly seductive—you’re not just building a solution to a problem, you’re potentially building a beautiful solution, with ‘beautiful’ here being defined here by an aesthetics of present and future functionality. This can be a trap.”

“When people respond too quickly, they often respond to the wrong issue. Listening helps us focus on the heart of the conflict. When we listen, understand, and respect each other's ideas, we can then find a solution in which both of us are winners.”

People Heart Ideas Helping Issues Focus Listening Conflict Solutions Winner Workplace Respect Each Other

Author:Gary Chapman

“Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.”

Problem Reality Belief Risk Products Civilization Solutions Illusion Absolutes Management Determined Organized Application Expertise Risk Management

Author:Voltaire

“If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Age Evil Christ Church Moral Conditions Solutions Understood Add Missions Radical Adam Fading Moral Strength

Book:Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Source: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

“When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Problem One Thing Solutions Insight Solve Brilliant Superficial Obsessing

Author:Evan Williams

“Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.”

Littles Matter Faces Choices Decision Solutions Conscious Currents Horrible Rational Certainty Settling Finding Yourself Floats Infallible Making Decisions Friction Rational Decisions

Book:INWARD HO!

Source: INWARD HO!

“Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer.”

Doe Reality Belief Space Answers Limits Solutions Belief Systems

Book:My Big Toe: Book 2 : Discovery

Source: My Big Toe: Book 2 : Discovery

“Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.”

Problem Given Lines Struggle Economy Trouble Solutions Difficulty Farmers Transportation Merchants

Author:John Moody

“Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.”

Believe Childhood Solutions Adulthood

Author:Adam Phillips

“Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.”

People Found Solutions Victim Treated Indigenous Indigenous People

Author:Malcolm Fraser

“[The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism....we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so they can impose their socialist 'utopia' of higher taxes, restricted access, inferior quality, and deadly inefficiency on the best health care system in the world....You and the RNC are all that stand between the Democrats' scheme to take more of your hard-earned income to pay for this unsustainable, freedom destroying entitlement and an opportunity to work for real, truly bipartisan step-by-step solutions.”

“Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.”

Mean Problem Design Solutions Software Transparent Representing Software Design

Author:Herbert Simon

“Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.”

Knows Needs Trying Looks Mean Philosophy Moving Order Language Talking Imagine Perception Solutions Definitions Determine Psychological Retiring Relevant Mazes Berkeley

Author:David Berman

“I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.”

People Mean Whole Courses Stage Development Solutions Ultimate Ownership Stages Of Development Ownership And Control

Author:James Larkin

“I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.”

Believe Kind War I Believe Conflict Solutions Don't Believe I Believe In Heroism Battlefields

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.”

People Years Night Scene Solutions Bills Clinton Conservative One Night

Author:Alan Clark

“So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.”

Thinking Found Struggle Solutions Illusion Life Struggle

Author:Bob Marley

“It takes a revolution, to create a solution”

Revolution Solutions

Author:Bob Marley

“The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.”

Thinking Humans Reason Problem Suffering Too Much Demand Solutions Evidence Rational Guardian Rational Thinking Human Suffering

Author:Sam Harris

“The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.”

Problem Faces Lying Enemy Solutions Negativity Negative People

Author:Bill Johnson

“I never saw no military solution That didn't always end up as something worse”

Ends Saws Military Solutions

Author:Sting

“If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if they are looking to the mass market then they must develop WAP sites.”

Ifs Needs Company Mass Solutions Video Site Bandwidth

Author:Jack London

“The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.”

Problem Solutions Iraq Occupation

Author:Robin Cook

“There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.”

Years Solutions Sat Little Things Verses Sage Seventies Millennium Mosquitoes

Author:Don Marquis

“So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.”

Challenges Lines Creative Honest Solutions Commitment Bottom Vulnerable Budgets Discussion Compassionate Balanced Bottom Line

Author:James H. Douglas

“The world is waiting for you to wake up to the person you are called to be. Stop listening to the negative inner conversation that's causing you to play small. Focus your mind on positive thoughts, possibilities and solutions that can move you forward. Tap into your creativity and determination and stay busy. Stay focused.”

“Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.”

Ifs Years Firsts Today Effort Accepting Solutions Flow Bills Oil Barrels Coastal Anwr

Author:John Olver

“It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.”

Writing Book Ideas Purpose Social Pleasure Interesting Moral Messages Solutions Difficulty Sake Things To Do Elegant Exploits Interesting Things Riddle Composing Elegant Solutions

Book:Strong opinions

Source: Strong opinions

“The core belief that drives terrorism is the notion of a "holy place," along with the idea that some people belong there and other people don't. That's why the only solution to terrorism is for religious scholars to hold a global summit to agree on the definition of "holy place." Once they agree on a definition, it will be easier to mock it into submission.”

People Ideas Belief Religious Easier Holy Solutions Agree Notion Definitions Terrorism Core Scholar Submission Summit Mock Holy Places Core Beliefs

Author:Scott Adams

“If people get all the sex they can handle, they're so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you've gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that's a solution to the world's problems.”

People Ifs World Feels Mean Problem Sex Solutions Handle Aggressive Happy And Content

Author:Ted Turner

“The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.”

Stills Action Danger Taxes Authority Findings Solutions Accepted Pursue Despite Alternatives Reasonable Payment

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.”

Believe Made I Believe Differences Solutions Fuel Making A Difference Crops Biofuels

Author:Vinod Khosla

“I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back... I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: "Have you considered going to drama school?" And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems.”

World Said Problem Age School Lying My Own Drama Solutions Angel Combination Desperation Manipulate Cords Fridges Umbilical Cord

Author:Tom Hardy

“In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.”

Sometimes Government Issues Willing Solutions Complicated

Author:Bernie Sanders

“We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions anywhere, whether from China or the United States or from one of the countries that is burning its forests like Brazil or Indonesia.”

Country States Faces United United States Civilization Solutions Threat China Forests Burning Indonesia Emissions Brazil Co2 Co2 Emissions

Author:Al Gore

“It's an important point, and every little bit helps not least because those who make those kinds of changes are more likely to make their voices heard as citizens. But the ultimate solutions are going to come through policies.”

Kind Littles Important Helping Bits Voice Heard Policy Citizens Little Bit Solutions Ultimate

Author:Al Gore

“The Oriental approach to violence is a much more aesthetic and poetic approach, whereas in the western world, violence is put in because you can't solve the problem. Violence is always the last solution, but unfortunately, in cinema, it's the first solution, because it's easy. And it's often too easy.”

World Firsts Problem Lasts Easy Violence Approach Solutions Western Solve Cinema Poetic Aesthetic Western World

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes or that comes; in about 30 minutes, it's going to be over and have an ending. So film has become a mathematical solution. And that is boring, because art is not mathematical.”

People Knows Art Problem Film Minutes Solutions Art Is Boring Math Mathematical Cinema Math Problems

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.”

Ifs Knows Writing Moments Difficult Realizing Simple Wonder Novel Path Fool Pure Solutions Logic Mathematics Carrie Evident Difficult Questions

Author:Don DeLillo

“My strong feeling is that we must learn more about how we learn. I'm convinced that we learn by struggling to find the solution to a problem on our own with some guidance, but getting in and getting our hands dirty and working it.”

Feelings Problem Hands Strong Struggle Solutions Convinced Dirty Guidance Working It Solution To A Problem Strong Feeling

Author:David McCullough

“If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.”

Ifs Wells Problem Solutions Defined

Author:Chip Kidd

“Sometimes clients have a sophisticated view of their design problem, sometimes they do not. I often spend time with the client redefining the problem, going back to the beginning. Often the problem is just a symptom. Sometimes you have to move back in order to move forward to understand what the nature of the solution should be.”

Should Sometimes Problem Moving Order Views Design Solutions Moving Forward Clients Sophisticated End Times Symptoms Spend Time Redefining

Author:Saul Bass

“Unless there is meaning, there is no solution.”

Solutions

Author:Sol Sender

“The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.”

Problem Solutions Resources Definitions Scarce Scarce Resources

Author:Esther Dyson

“The solution to our suffering is our suffering!”

Suffering Solutions

Author:Peter Kreeft

“Sex criminals. Completely incurable... I suppose you could outlaw religion and these sex crimes would disappear in a generation or two, but we don't have time for rational solutions.”

Two Sex Generations Crime Solutions Disappear Criminals Rational Outlaw

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.”

Problem Faces Simple Politician Solutions Complexes Agendas Simple Solutions

Book:The spirit of community: rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda

Source: The spirit of community: rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda

“What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.”

Problem Known Solutions Invention

Author:Dean Kamen

“...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.”

Problem Solutions Solve Horns Dilemma Habitual Dualism Chopping

Book:This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Source: This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather than part of its solution.”

Ifs Problem Language Design Solutions Program Tools Complicated Code Complexity Programmers

Author:Tony Hoare

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