My solution to the problem would be to tell them that they've got to draw in their horns, or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age.

-LeMay, Curtis Emerson
Of the North Vietnamese. Mission with LeMay (1965).

Better a'e gowden lyric Than a social problem solved.

-Grieve
  To Circumjack Cencrastus, or The Curly Snake.

Hang a lantern on your problem.

-Matthews, ChristopherJ
   Advice to political candidates to expose their personal frailties before they can be discovered by the media. In the New York Times,10  Jul.

What is the main problem of the actor? It is to keep the audience awake, and not let them go to sleep, then wake up and go home feeling they've wasted their money.

-Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron
Attributed.

Observation is always selective. It needs a chosen object, a definite task, an interest, a point of view, a problem.

-Popper, Sir Karl Raimund
  Conjectures and Refutations (published1963), ch.1.

There is at least one philosophical problem in which all thinking men are interested. It is the problem of cosmology: the problem of understanding the worldöincluding ourselves, and our knowledge, as part of the world. All science is cosmology, I believe, and for me the interest of philosophy, no less than that of science, lies solely in the contributions which it has made to it.

-Popper, Sir Karl Raimund
  The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934), preface to1959 edition.

The problem is not style but quality, not aesthetics but ethics.

-Rogers, Richard George Rogers, Baron
  22nd annualWalter Neurath lecture. Collected in Architecture: a ModernView.

I have never been able to decide whether, in mountain exploration, it is the prospect of tackling an unsolved problem, or the performance of the task itself, or the retrospective enjoyment of successful effort, which affords the greatest amount of pleasure.

-Shipton, Eric Earle
  Nanda Devi.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

-Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)
  Contingencies of Reinforcement, ch.9.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

-Small, AlbionW
  'AVision of Social Efficiency', in the AmericanJournal of Sociology, Jan.

Ihold a beast, anangel and a madmanwithinme, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self expression.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Letter to HenryTreece.

   I am convinced that the history of so-called scientific work in our famous centers of European civilization will, in a couple of hundred years, represent an inexhaustible source of laughter and sorrow for future generations. The learned men of the small western part of our European continent lived for several centuries under the illusionthatthe eternal blessed life wastheWest'sfuture. They were interested in the problem of when and where this blessed life would come.But they never thought of how they were going to make their life better.

-Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich
  What is Art? (translated byV Tchertkoff).

Ein philosophisches Problem hat die Form: 'Ich kenne mich nicht aus'. A philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way about'.

-Wittgenstein, LudwigJosef Johann
  Philosophische Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations), section123 (translated by G E M Anscombe).