[Steely Tom]

“There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs; and you try to get the best trade-off you can get, that's all you can hope for.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Grandpa Drudge]

“Hope” never produces solutions. If hope is all you have you are unlikely to be consistently satisfied.

A plan and action are required to achieve a desired solution, otherwise you will simply be faced with someone else’s solution.