“We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so many scientists have done, or we can work to find solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our orientation is found not only in our acts, but also in the policies we support or oppose.” GivingDoneProblemHumanityChoicesFoundSupportTalentPolicyWallCreatingWeaponsSolutionsScientistBridgesOrientationDisarmamentAnnihilationProblems And SolutionsSolution To A Problem Author:David Krieger
“Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single instruction: find out how we can best invest each education dollar so that it will do the most good. Your support and the support of every leading education group proves that they did their job better than I had hoped, because for the first time we have succeeded in finding goals which unite us rather than divide us.” WayMindFirstsProblemJobsLastsNationsGoalEducationSupportGroupsProveFindingsSummerFirst TimeDollarsEducationalDividesInstructionOutstandingLast Summer Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The incredible expansion of mobile technologies is another important factor that will both drive and support the deployment of workplace learning tools and systems in the areas of performance support, particularly, but also in areas such as expert location, crowdsourcing-based problem solving and others.” ImportantProblemTechnologySupportAreasToolsPerformancesIncrediblesFactorsExpertsProblem SolvingExpansionLocationWorkplaceMobileDeploymentCrowdsourcingMobile Technology Author:Charles Jennings
“Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.” HelpingProblemSupportProductsIndustrySignificantConsistentSoftwarePlatformsMaintaining Author:Bill Gates
“The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.” ThinkingIdeasProblemCommonSupportEconomicPolicySolutionsCommon SenseReasoningWonderlandStorageEconomic ProblemsTopsy Turvy Author:Benjamin Graham
“You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know the specification, meaning both the explicit and the tacit specification of your language and of your problem. "Hey, it works most of the time" is the very antithesis of a serious programmer, and certain languages can only support code like that.” KnowsProblemCertainLanguageSupportStageSeriousDegreesHeyCodeWhere You AreProgrammersExplicitAntithesisTacitSpecifications Author:Erik Naggum
“We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.” WorldNeedsProblemCoursesNationsCommonEffortSupportSeriousConcernTradeDivorcedRecogniseIntegratedFree TradeWorld Trade Author:Lawrence Summers
“When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.” IfsWayProblemGovernmentRunningSocialDealsSupportSecurityLimitsDebtSpendingPilotsFederal GovernmentSocial SecurityMedicareMedicaidMedicare And Medicaid Author:Allen West
“The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.” WayWholeProblemActionPastDecisionSupportTeachingTaughtLateEthicsAvailableDrivenManagersDataEnterpriseToo LateTaking ActionConsultants Author:Clayton Christensen
“JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously its a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.” ProblemMistakeSupportEconomyHigherToughCommitteesCompensationOversightLiquidity Author:Jamie Dimon
“My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."” StillsProblemLastsScienceNumbersSupportMediaExampleTheoryMonthsMathematicsUniversityUglyPartnersRidiculousNewspapersGapsPrimeReportersControversialCoverageTurkishLearning EnglishPrime NumbersMedia Coverage Author:Daniel Goldston
“Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life--of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence.” ChildrenProblemIndividualSocialRolesSupportGrowing UpGrowingGroupsResourcesIndependenceVarietyEnterpriseCollectivesBelongingConformityInclusionParticipationSocial LifeExclusionOrganizationalBelonging To A Group Author:Zick Rubin
“It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.” WorldWritingChildrenProblemAbleEffortSupportKnowingTeacherImagineStudentsProjectsFoundationComplexesAbsurdOur WorldImagine ThatLiteracyComplex Problems Author:Isabel Allende
“The Jews caused us a great injustice, the greatest injustice. They have expelled our people, stolen our land, shed our brothers' blood, and are still shedding blood, and there should be no contact between them and us. We will not agree to meet with them until our problem with the Zionist entity and those Westerners and Christians who support them, is solved.” PeopleShouldStillsProblemChristianSupportBloodLandBrotherAgreeInjusticeJewContactShedEntityStolenZionistWesternersShedding Blood Author:Yusuf al-Qaradawi
“Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.” ThinkingWorldWantFirstsChildrenTwoWarDoneProblemCareYoungWorrySupportViolenceConflictPercentResourcesThirdsVictimAccessSupposed To BeHealth CareLabourAssetsYoung WomenFundamentalismBeatenDomestic ViolenceProstitutionMen WomenRecessionsPrematureAccess To EducationVictims Of War Author:Isabel Allende
“I got a lot of mail from organizations concerned with bike safety. Then I got a couple from people who wanted my support for mandatory helmet laws. I can't support that. If you pass a law like that you'll do more harm than good, because you'll make people think they've done something about the problem when they haven't.” PeopleIfsThinkingI CanDoneProblemWantedLawSupportHavensCoupleConcernedOrganizationSafetyHarmMailBikeHelmet Author:Dave Barry
“Having problems with people don't get me paid. So, that ain't me. I support those that support me. Gucci, Rocko, Nicki, Rick Ross, Drake, Tyga, whoever you want to put in the list, I'm working with them and they are all down with me. I just make good music.” PeopleWantProblemSupportPaidListsSupport MeGucci Author:Drumma Boy
“My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.” StillsProblemMotherSupportBloodPressureNotesHearingSupport MeBlood PressureDetentionHigh Blood Pressure Author:Ai Weiwei
“Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.” PeopleNeedsProblemActionSupportEnvironmentPlanetsDevelopmentBecomingCapacityDestructionTransformationUrgentDegradationModificationBiosphere Author:Malcolm Fraser
“Aggression, occupation and a repetition of the Holocaust won't bring peace. What we want is a sustainable peace. This means that we have to tackle the root of the problem. I am pleased to note that you are honest people and admit that you are obliged to support the Zionists.” PeopleWantMeanProblemSupportHonestRootsNotesOccupationHolocaustAggressionRepetitionObligedZionistHonest People Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.” MenWellsProblemActionWinningSupportSeeingTeamPossibilityPureSolutionsOppositesMathematicsComplexesPatientMythologyEngineeringAdeptMultitaskingComplex ProblemsWinning TeamTrue Woman Author:Weili Dai
“I know people who support Hamas but they never got involved in terrorist attacks, for example... They follow Hamas because they love God and they think that Hamas represents God. They don't have knowledge, they don't know the real God and they never studied Christianity. But Hamas, as representative for Islam, it's a big problem.” PeopleThinkingKnowsRealProblemBigsChristianitySupportExampleInvolvedIslamTerroristGod LoveRepresentativesBig ProblemsTerrorist AttacksHamas Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef
“In a family, parents, grandparents and children feel at home; no one is excluded. If someone has a problem, even a serious one, even if he brought it upon himself, the rest of the family comes to his assistance; they support him. ... Should the same not happen in society?” IfsFeelsShouldChildrenProblemHomeHappensParentSupportSeriousGrandparentAssistanceExcluded Author:Pope Francis
“The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own.” ProblemUnitedPartySupportRussiaIdeology Author:Vladislav Surkov
“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
“Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles.” ProblemFightingStrongSupportMiddleBattleEastRussiaIranVery StrongMiddle EastHungBeing ThereAssadProxyHezbollah Author:Hillary Clinton
“We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.” MeanFactsProblemUniverseSupportInformationIntegrityLocalsGet AwayGoing AwayProblem Solvers Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for the Iraqis. Let's also be clear: Our problems in Iraq have not been caused by one man, and this is a moment when the administration can and must launch a major effort to gain international support and win the peace.” MenImportantMomentsProblemWinningEffortStepsSupportClearReturnMajorsGainsInternationalIraqAdministrationOne ManBrutalDictatorSaddamHussein Author:John F. Kerry