Problems

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.