Big problem Quote by John L. Casti

Fragility of modern world leaves me with the idea we'd better anticipate what's going on. We take our right steps today and now. And…

— Werner Herzog

The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and…

— Jamais Cascio

We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising…

— Cass Sunstein

The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society…

— Franz Josef Radermacher

We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

— Alex Stamos

There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet…

— Jeff Bezos

“Today we have something that works in the same way, but for everyday people: the Internet, which encourages public thinking and resolves multiples on…

— The Penguin Press

You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all…

— Molly Ivins

At the end of the day, the internet is a fair space. A medium of infinite resource. And something we've never had before, ever.…

— Eli Russell Linnetz

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

— Evgeny Morozov

The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.

— Robert Metcalfe

It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe…

— Martin Rees