Jonathan Rauch Quotes

I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.

Unfortunately, the experience on HealthCare.gov has been highly frustrating for many Americans. These problems are unacceptable.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it's supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines.

I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect.

[Referring to the Pentagon:] It's a mammoth place that makes an incredible number of mistakes.

It is a lot easier to find gaps in the health care system than to find ways to fill them.

This system isn't working.

Complex systems work until the day that they don’t work.

Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so big that their own organization as such, by itself, can never come to a, can never come up with a solution.

The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.

There are things that have gone on in thr USA for years and years and have never been addressed, and they need to be.

Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

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

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

Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.

Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.

Houston, we have a problem.

Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.

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

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

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

We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.