As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Solutions are not the answer.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don’t think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.