Tony Hoare Quotes

It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.

The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

That's not an easy message to deliver whether it's in war and peace or in the economic arena, people don't want to be told that all their problems have been solved and everything good so it's a little bit tricky.

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.

When you nag, you become the problem, he deals with it by turning you out, but when you don't nag, he deals with the problem.

Most of my problems have no answer or else the answer is worse than the problem.

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

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.

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.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

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.

I always believed you could fix whatever problems.

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

If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.

You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.

A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.

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

The grievance industry always seeks to blame other people while never finding a solution. That's my problem with it, when solutions are there to be had.