Stephen J. Dubner Quotes

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

Stephen J. Dubner

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• Many people have said we just need to add more products. Look at Oracle, look at SAP. Add ERP and inventory or compensation. Add all this stuff. What we realized is we're the customer company. We're the front office solution, and our customers would be really upset if we just added a whole bunch of stuff and lost focus.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Lost
  • Focus

• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Problem
  • Ego

• The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Health care
  • Complicated

• The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Problem
  • Sad

• Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

  

  Ice T
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• Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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  • Serious
  • Fact

• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Problem
  • Cold
  • Sound

• Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.

  

  Nat Friedman
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• This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

  

  Aaron Allston
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  • Driving
  • Were

• I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • War
  • Peace
  • Stop

• I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Problem
  • Creative
  • Abilities

• If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
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• My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Life
  • Problem
  • My Life

• The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Problem
  • How

• I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Day
  • Problem

• It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Problem
  • Easy
  • Company

• For St. Thomas Aquinas the problem was rather different. It was a question of how to integrate philosophy into sacred science, not only without allowing either the one or the other to suffer essentially thereby, but to the greater benefit of both. In order to achieve this result, he had to integrate a science of reason with a science of revelation without corrupting at the same time both the purity of reason and the purity of revelation.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Philosophy

• Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• My mom and grandma, growing up, one thing they emphasized was that you need to make sure that anything you put on your skin is also digestible by the body. For example, if something isn't safe for me to eat or consume, it's probably not good for your face. So I do a lot of natural remedies.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the courage to participate in meaningful change and purposeful living.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • God
  • Help
  • Change

• To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Goal
  • Ego

• The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

  

  Stephen J. Dubner
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