Keyword: Solutions

There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it.

If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

General solutions to specific problems become specific problems requiring general solutions.

If only one solution can be found for a field problem, then it is usually a stupid solution.

Whenever an expert is confounded by a seemingly insoluble problem, the solution is immediately obvious to the first unqualified person who happens along.

When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.


For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.

I don’t have a solution, but I admire the problem.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

No real problem has a solution.

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.

(1947 – ) American author

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

The only time you come up with a great solution is after somebody else has solved the problem.

In any human endeavour, once you have exhausted all possibilities and fail, there will be one solution, simple and obvious, highly visible to everyone else.

If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number.

There comes a time when one must stop suggesting and evaluating new solutions, and get on with the job of analyzing and finally implementing one pretty good solution.

The solution to a problem changes the problem.

Every solution breeds new problems.