A Quote by H. L. Mencken

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken
American - Writer
September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

Ellet J. Waggoner

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

Russell L. Ackoff

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Agatha Christie

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

H. L. Mencken

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

Derek Landy

The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.

Susan Sontag

There's a solution to every problem. I just have to find the right solution to fix this problem

Brock Lesnar

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

Henry Paulson

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

Pearl S. Buck

The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

Peter Drucker

You may have problems to solve but for every problem there is always a solution. It's a positive-and-negative thing: you can't have a problem without there being a solution. There always is. Your job is to find it.

Brian Sibley

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

Ezra Taft Benson

It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.

Ivan Sutherland

We have reached a moment in our history where we think that every problem in America has to have a federal government solution. Every problem in America does not have a federal government solution. In fact, most problems in America do not have a federal government solution and many of them are created by the federal government to begin with.

Marco Rubio

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