Barack Obama Quotes

Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

No easy problems ever come to the President. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

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

To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

Some problems are better evaded than solved.

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

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

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

I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions.

There are no painless solutions to this problem, but we’ve got to solve it.

There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.

We're surrounded by big problems and people who have been attacking the same big problems for years and years and years and years, and often they're not getting anywhere.

I like solving problems that seem intractable. That's how I thrive.

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.

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.

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

Our problems are technical, not political