I THINK all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the BIG conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd SOLVED sexism and RACISM, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.

The REAL PROBLEM is what to do with the problem-solvers after the PROBLEMS are SOLVED.

Take any old classification problem where you have a LOT of DATA, and it's GOING to be solved by deep LEARNING. There's going to be thousands of applications of deep learning.

My MOM had not worked a day in her life, and then she WOKE up when I was 15 and found herself with FOUR children, no job, no money. But she SET out and made it all OK for US, and from that, I saw that there's no problem that can't be solved.

It is MISTAKEN to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an AGENDA of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' OPTIONS - indeed, there is a POSITIVE symbiosis between them.

It's true that AMERICA can't SOLVE EVERY problem, but I don't KNOW of any major problem in the world that can be solved WITHOUT us.

I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our ENTERTAINMENT systems to our sensory SYSTEM. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as WELL. It's just GETTING the TECHNOLOGY - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology.

The data center SIDE of the world is kind of like a SOLVED PROBLEM, but you see interesting THINGS happening on the edge with things like cell phones and embedded systems that are becoming really FASCINATING.

The SERIOUS PROBLEMS facing the world today will NEVER be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and LOCAL communities, as the World Bank and others have DISCOVERED.

The PROBLEMS of the world are not GOING to be engaged with and SOLVED in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities LIKE Birmingham.

I'm just an ENTERTAINER. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you KNOW it will be solved. So you've got to make the STORY interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why CHARACTER matters, why you've got to make the CHARACTERS interesting.

If I've GOT a problem with one of my CLIENTS that needs to get SOLVED, guess what I'm going to do? I'm going to call them up, and I'm going to say, 'Hey, here's what's going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn't expect it. Now it's going to TAKE me some more time to get you what you NEED.' But I'm going to do that upfront.

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or EVEN to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's WORK here, DEALING with questions of reality, for example.

I've long believed that the work-out life has lessons for the writing life. I've 'solved' a lot of books while at the GYM, in PART because I'm not trying to solve them at that precise MOMENT.

To a poet the MERE making of a poem can SEEM to SOLVE the PROBLEM of TRUTH, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.