“Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.”

“The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others”

“The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.”

“Programmers are isolated. They sit in their cubicle; they don't think about the larger picture. To my mind, a programmer is not an engineer, because an engineer is somebody who starts with a social problem that an organization or a society has and says, "OK, here's this problem that we have- how can we solve it?" The engineer comes up with a clever, cost-effective solution to address that problem, builds it, tests it to make sure it solves the problem. That's engineering.”

“We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.”

“There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves.”