“There’s nothing like deduction. We’ve determined everything about our problem but the solution.”
Isaac Asimov book I, Robot
“Runaround”, p. 41; see above for the Three Laws of Robotics, also drawn from this story
I, Robot (1950)
“But of course. Who ever tracks me down to impart good news?
Chapter 10 (p. 180)
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
“There’s nothing like deduction. We’ve determined everything about our problem but the solution.”
Isaac Asimov book I, Robot
“Runaround”, p. 41; see above for the Three Laws of Robotics, also drawn from this story
I, Robot (1950)
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
BBC (1979); reported in John Blundell, Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady (2008), page 193.
First term as Prime Minister
Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City
http://www.nycivic.org/MediaArchive/BloombergSpeech041110.html
Election Reform
Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“If I only could
Be running up that hill
With no problems…”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)
“Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”
John Connolly (1968) author
Source: Nocturnes
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102777<br>The last sentence is widely paraphrased as "The trouble/problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition <br class="br">Variant: They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money. <br class="br">Context: And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing... It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.
“Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.”
Lois McMaster Bujold book Paladin of Souls
Paladin of Souls (2003)
Context: You can't solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn't true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.
p. 36
Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 36
Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen