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"I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems."
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"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."
"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."
"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."
"Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems."
"My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?"
"Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong."
"One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good."
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"Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment."
"The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive."
"My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation."
"We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports."
"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues."
"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things."
"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view."
"So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming."
"But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression."
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