The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) American inventor, engineer, researcher, businessman
(Attributed)
Quoted in Thomas Alvin Boyd, Charles F. Kettering: A Biography (1957)
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The facts are indispensable; they are not sufficient. To solve a problem it is necessary to think.
Robert M. Hutchins (1899–1977) American educator and educational philosopher
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
If this stone won’t budge at present and is wedged in, move some of the other stones around it first.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-English philosopher
Culture and Value, 1940 (1977) [tr. Winch (1980)]
When a mess, which is a system of problems, is taken apart, it loses its essential properties and so does each of its parts. The behavior of a mess depends more on how the treatment of its parts interact than how they act independently of each other. A partial solution to a whole system of problems is better than whole solutions of each of its parts taken separately.
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) American organizational theorist, consultant, management scientist
“The future of operational research is past,” The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol 30 (1979)
Don’t make excuses — make good!
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, businessman, philosopher
A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)
