Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage but when you have this collective goal that is a human being it's an inspiring rally point.

While there continues to be differences the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency because if you don't become efficient you don't run a business well and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

In these troubled uncertain times we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time there is no hope of ever solving them.

One of the great questions of philosophy is do we innately have morality or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.