Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes

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

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right.

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. Realistically, the more problems we have and the larger they are, the greater our value to our employer.

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.

Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos never rest.

Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.