I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

-Anderson, Poul William
  In the New Scientist, 25 Sep.

He isjoyful with swift movement when a mouse sticks in his sharp paw. I too am joyful when I understand a dearly loved difficult problem.

-Anonymous
c.820  'Me and Pangur Ba¤  n', by an unidentified cat-owning scholar, translated in Gerard Murphy Early Irish Lyrics (1956), no.1.

There isno such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.You seek problems because you need their gifts.

-Bach, Richard
  Illusions.

At the root of the American Negro problem is the necessity of the American white man to find a way of living with the Negro in order to be able to live with himself.

-Baldwin,James Arthur
  'Stranger in a Village', in Harper's, Oct.

Il n'y a qu'un proble'  me philosophique vraiment se¤  rieux: c'est le suicide. Juger que la vie vaut ou ne vaut pas la peine d'e"  tre ve¤  cue, c'est re¤  pondre a'   la question fondamentale de la philosophie. Thereisbutonetrulyseriousphilosophical problem, and that is suicide.Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

-Camus, Albert
  LeMythe deSisyphe ( TheMyth of Sisyphus,1955),'Absurdity and Suicide'.

Peut-on e"  tre un saint sans Dieu: C'est le seul proble'  me concret que je connaisse aujourd'hui. Can one become a saint without God? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

-Camus, Albert
  La Peste.

   It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  The Scandal of Father Brown,'Point of a Pin'.

You're either part of the solution, or you're part of the problem.

-Cleaver, Eldridge
  Speech, San Francisco.

When somebody tells you it is not a money problem, they're talking about somebody else's money.

-Clinton, Bill (William)
  In US A  Today, 20 Dec.

On the contrary, the mere fact of dealing with matters outside the general run of everyday experience laid me under the obligation of a more scrupulous fidelity to the truth of my own sensations. The problem was to make unfamiliar things credible.

-Constantinus
  Within the Tides, preface.

But Jesus, when you don't have any money the problem is food.When you have money, it's sex.When you have both it's health, you worryabout getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

-Donleavy,J(ames) P(atrick)
  The Ginger Man, ch.5.

It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Red-Headed League'.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line.

-Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)
  Address to the Pan- African Conference, London.

Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that isthefact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.

-Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)
Preface to reprint of  The Souls of Black Folk (1969).

Part of the problem for the invisible manwas that he was invisibletohimself,that hedidn'tgrasphisowncomplexity.

-Ellison, RalphWaldo
  Quoted by Keith Botsford in Ellison's obituary,18  Apr1994, in The Independent.

You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

-Feynman, Richard P(hillips)
  Explaining his feelings on quantum mechanics. In the International Journal of  Theoretical Physics, vol.21.

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States.Eachsuburbanwifestruggledwith it alone. Asshe made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at nightöshe was afraid to ask even of herself the silent questionö'Is this all?'

-Friedan, Betty (Elizabeth) Naomi ne¤  e  Goldstein
  The Feminine Mystique, ch.1,'The Problem that has No Name'.

In Bezug auf das sudetendeutsche Problem meine Geduld jetzt zu Ende ist! With regard tothe problem of the Sudeten Germans, my patience is now at an end!

-Hitler, Adolf
  Speech in Berlin, 26 Sep, in Max Domarus (ed) Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen1932^1945 (1962), p.932.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  Attributed remark to journalist  James Reston, following Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev,  Jun.

Given that the deepest problem with the US economy is slow productivity growth, it is difficult to argue for tax increasesthat might reduceincentives† Thereseemsto Kuhn be a public consensus that Donald Trump is the price of progress.

-Krugman, Paul R
  The Age of Diminished Expectations.