Subject: Problems

There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.

The leak in the roof is never in the same location as the drip.

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we’re in.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

General solutions to specific problems become specific problems requiring general solutions.

No real problem has a solution.

Any bus that can be the wrong bus will be the wrong bus. All others are out of service or full.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

(1772 – 1851) American Presbyterian theologian & professor

The one piece that holds the whole thing together will be missing.

The mistake you make is in trying to figure it out.

(1911 – 1983) playwright

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

I don't look to jump over seven-foot bars: I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.

(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman

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

Mechanics, not microbes, are the menace to civilization.

(1868 – 1952) British writer

To a quick question, give a slow answer.

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

For every problem science solves, it creates ten new one.

The first shall be last and the last shall be first, but if you're in the middle, you're stuck there.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.

Yesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car; it wasn’t serious – nobody saw me.

(1978 – ) American writer & stand-up comedian