George J. Mitchell Quotes

The solution of one problem always brings a few more problems to the surface to be solved, which were hidden underneath the theory of transmission.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Any study of a society shows that every solution creates a new situation which breeds its own new needs and problems, new demands.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Every solution breeds new problems.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

If you don’t understand how problems came to be, how are you going to know how to fix them?

In all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgivableness.

Technology can relieve the symptoms of the problem without affecting the underlying causes. Faith in technology as the ultimate solution to all problems can thus divert our attention from the most fundamental problem

Almost every achievement contains within its success the seeds of a future problem.

Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.

Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.