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• The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
  -- David Friedma...
• The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.
  -- David Friedma...
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• Obviously the only rational solution to your problem is suicide.
• Sometimes the only solution is to find a new problem.
• There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it.
• Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.