Stephen J. Dubner Quotes
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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 -
The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
Valerie Jarrett -
The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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 -
The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.
Maajid Nawaz -
The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
Yehuda Berg
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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 -
This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.
Aaron Allston -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
T. Boone Pickens
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
Bashar al-Assad -
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 -
It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
Naveen Jain -
It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.
Caitlin Moran -
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Malcolm X -
We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.
Zong Qinghou
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You don't learn how to say 'hey, I have a problem,' but you also don't learn how to hear it. There's a total breakdown of how females talk to one another. It's very disconcerting for leadership because it means you don't talk to each other; you talk about each other.
Rachel Simmons -
I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
You get what you pay for.
Gabriel Biel -
The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -
I think that therapy is great and can be incredibly helpful.
Samira Wiley -
The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?
Stephen J. Dubner