"But right now those are not the important problems," he said.
"The chief executives of McKesson & Robbins regarded inventory control as one of the important problems involved in proper operations of their business.
The airlines' explanation for the sheer misery of flying is that the important problems — bad weather and an antiquated air-traffic-control system, resulting in overcrowded runways — are out of their hands.
He presented this as an epiphany about the power of "partnerships," of "a culture of possibility," and about how the important problems in the world didn't have to be seen as a "zero-sum game".
"And then my foot started to hurt and so I went to a doctor and he said, 'This is the kind of injury we see in soldiers on forced marches.' " Ultimately, Mr. Shiller chose economics, he said, because he thought it would allow him to work on the important problems of society, like poverty and starvation.
By the time of Alexander most of the important problems in the realistic or dramatic treatment of features, pose, and drapery had been solved, leaving to later generations an opportunity only to exaggerate anatomy or expression or to devise sculptural groups of yet greater complexity.
"I look at what are the important problems: energy, healthcare, water".
But Jansen felt that most of the important problems in the field had been solved already.
One of the important problems within this issue is the sharing and publishing of network traces.
Prediction of plate behavior in large deformation is one of the important problems in plate theories.
One of the important problems in performance evaluation is to prioritize the performance indicators.
