Rasmus Lerdorf Quotes

There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It's impossible.

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

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.

Some problems are better evaded than solved.

Public men have, however, to pick their steps as best they may, for the straight path would lead too often to the cliff-edge.

There are many people who want simple solutions, but there are none ... nor will there be.

It’s not very profitable to sit and think nowadays. So many problems, and they seem all to have such twists to them – nothing is straightforward.

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble

What comes into the Oval Office are not the good or easy decisions. The easy decisions are made elsewhere. The things that make it to the Oval are always the hard ones.

I want to show two things. One, that Democrats can solve big problems and get things done. And two, that as a public official, you can make tough choices, do the right things for the right reasons, and upset some people. And still get elected.

There are many hard truths that we must face in life.

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

But only a candidate who rejects wishful thinking, has the courage to tell the truth about the options in front of us and who will address Brexit on the basis of the hard realities will succeed.

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

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

The simple questions are always the hardest ones.

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.

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.

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

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

Our problems are technical, not political

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

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

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