#problems

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#ignorance #knowledge #problems #solve #them

It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them. ↗

— Michael Palin

#contemplation #peace #problems #religion #marriage

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem! ↗

— Jared Diamond

#error #misguidedness #population #problems #environmentalism

The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#challenge #introducing #piece #postfix #problems

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#just #major #mistake #potatoes #problems

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. ↗

— Scott Adams

#create #engineers #like #own #problems

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. ↗

— Scott Adams

#approach #be careful #careful #cause #company

Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems. ↗

— Scott Adams

#better #brand #brand new #create #definitely

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#distrust #founded #ideological #intelligence #just

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#being #cent #enough #feel #how