Christopher Moore Quotes

I'm a low-tech man in a high-tech world.

What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper.

I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.

I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

Americans tend to believe that every problem has some technical solution.

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible. A thing with them is no sooner said than done.

You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.

The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.

You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.

Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.

Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.

I believe engineers will save the world.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.