You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. We understand there are bigger problems we need to solve as a species than what God you pray to.
Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.
All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.
Sometimes when you have limited resources and you really have to think about creative ways to get around some of these problems, generally the end result is better.
Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.
The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.
I think I have mental problems, I think I have like weird obsessions with things, really annoying.
One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.
I think the people like myself who are in the center ground of politics and who think that center left and center right can cooperate and work together. Who don't like this sort of insurgent populism because we think it's not really going to deliver for the people, I think there's a big responsibility on us in the center to get our act together. And to work out radical but serious solutions to the problems people face.
Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.
Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.
Problems are spiritual lessons from God-spiritual lessons to be learned.
I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.
By using vertical space more effectively, you not only make more room for greenery but shorter commutes also mean less pressure on CO2 emission problems and by freeing up time now spent on unproductive commuter trains, people would have more options in their lives.
I'm always presenting myself with problems to solve as a writer.
Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.
You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.
Our attitude can turn our problems into blessings.
One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really tie the "I" into a "we" at all. I'm still surprised at how mad critics get at that kind of confessional writing.