Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2014, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall (April 2014)
“People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental/population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!"”
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“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!”
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist
“Life's most important questions are, for the most part, nothing but probability problems.”
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) French mathematician and astronomer
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"Les questions les plus importantes de la vie ne sont en effet, pour la plupart, que des problèmes de probabilité."
“Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.”
Norman Lamm (1927) American rabbi
Seventy faces: articles of faith (2002)
“The most important questions of life… are indeed for the most part only problems of probability.”
Pierre-Simon Laplace book Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1902)
Context: The most important questions of life... are indeed for the most part only problems of probability. Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we are able to know with certainty, even in the mathematical sciences themselves, the principal means for ascertaining truth—induction and analogy—are based on probabilities.<!--p.1
“The discipline of postponing gratification is the single most important discipline your son needs.”
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 98
“The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem.”
Leó Szilárd (1898–1964) Physicist and biologist
As quoted in "Close-up : I'm looking for a market for wisdom. : Leo Szilard, scientist" in LIFE magazine, Vol. 51, no. 9 (1 September 1961), p. 75
Context: The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.
