“I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.”
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Michel Foucault 128
French philosopher 1926–1984Related quotes
“When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.”
Joseph Stalin
(1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
It is mistakenly attributed to Stalin: there is no evidence that he ever said or wrote something like that.
This phrase from the novel "Children of the Arbat" (1987) by Анатолий Наумович Рыбаков (1911 — 1998). As Stalin said about the execution of military experts in Tsaritsyn in 1918: "Death solves all problems. No person and no problem. " Later, in his «Роман-воспоминание» (1997), Рыбаков wrote that the phrase Stalin "possibly from someone heard, perhaps, he came up with." This was Stalin's principle. I just, it briefly formulated."
Terence Tao
(1975) Australian mathematician
and thus is one of the previous two types of problem
Source: Solving Mathematical Problems (2nd ed., 2006), Ch. 1 : Strategies in problem solving
“All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.”
William Zinsser
(1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 8, Unity, p. 49.
“To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk