If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

Attributed to Einstein but not ever sourced.

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

An example where a modern truism is so usefully true, but which has emerged in a such a diffused manner, that it goes seeking for an authority to lend it credence. A pity since it is true on its own, no matter its origins.