I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
Biker at Phone Booth: [to the Terminator] Hey, man, you've got a serious attitude problem.
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.
It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.
The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.
It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution - that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world.
You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'
ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.
I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.
