The classic undecidable problem is "the halting problem". In short, given a computer program (and some input for it), decide if that program will ever stop, or continue forever. It turns out there is NO WAY to write a program which will, for any input program, check if it will halt in finite time.
This stuff is a little mind-blowing at first -- the wikipedia article isn't bad.
EDIT: Fixed typo from wolfgke
The classic undecidable problem ...
Some examples of this are propositional logic and linear logic are decidable, whereas the halting problem and nonlinear logic are not.
For instance, the halting problem isn't decidable because although you can answer true or false for some specific programs, there exists programs where you do not know if they halt or not. Arbitrary mathematical problems in general are undecidable (see Gödel's incompleteness theorems) but we can still carve out domains within this that are decidable.