#problem

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#clear #even #flight #free #get

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#form #i #know #philosophical #philosophical problem

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#flow #funny #hit #how #memory

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#approach #college #difficulties #find #our

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#comforting #fact #got #high #high places

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#always #another #been #being #books

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#child #compared #corresponding #deal #importance

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #becomes #constant #domain #even

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#broader #bubble #calamity #contrast #creating

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#debt #debt ceiling #get #law #need