Jacque Fresco Quotes

Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.

In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.

Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.

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

More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

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

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

We have reached a moment in our history where we think that every problem in America has to have a federal government solution. Every problem in America does not have a federal government solution. In fact, most problems in America do not have a federal government solution and many of them are created by the federal government to begin with.

The social and political issues the world faces are bigger than a few leaders. I made a lot of work about corporate influence in government, which is a problem in both parties and under any president.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.

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

There is a technical solution to every political problem...

Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

Unfortunately, simplistic framing of problems leads to simplistic answers.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

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.