„Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.“
— Thomas Pynchon, buch Die Enden der Parabel
Variante: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Quelle: Gravity's Rainbow
„If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.“
— John Major Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1943
Attributed to Major by Vernon Bogdanor, " Why the Lords doesn't need more politicians http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/02/11/do1104.xml", Sunday Telegraph, 11 February 2007
Attributed
— Susanne K. Langer, buch Philosophy in a New Key
Quelle: Philosophy in a New Key (1942), Ch. 1, p. 1
„If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question.“
— Rasmus Lerdorf Danish programmer and creator of PHP 1968
PHP.net: eval http://php.net/eval, Anonymous comment, 2004
PHP in a Nutshell https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/php-in-a/0596100671/re47.html by Paul Hudson, 2005
„If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.“
— Yogi Berra American baseball player, manager, coach 1925 - 2015
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 101.
Yogiisms
„The answers are easy. Asking the right questions is hard.“
— Steve Blank American businessman 1953
Quelle: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 91.
„You have a every right to ask me that. It's your prerogative. But i have the right to not answer.“
— MS Dhoni Indian cricket player 1981
What's personal stays personal. And dhoni makes sure it is. https://www.scoopwhoop.com/sports/ms-dhoni/ It’s important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. https://redagas.blogspot.com/2019/07/ms-dhoni-quotes.html
— Prevale Italian DJ and producer 1983
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale
Original: (it) Quando si è bimbi si fanno tante domande pretendendo altrettante risposte. Quando si è adulti si evitano molte domande, per evitare inutili risposte.
— Judith Sheindlin American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author 1942
Quelle: Quotes From Judge Judy Cases, Dress, Stand, and/or Speak Properly
„The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.“
— Claude Lévi-Strauss French anthropologist and ethnologist 1908 - 2009
— John Tukey American mathematician 1915 - 2000
The future of data analysis. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 33 (1), (1962), page 13.
Variante: "An approximate answer to the right question is worth a great deal more than a precise answer to the wrong question." "as the renowned statistician John Tukey once reportedly said," according to Super Freakonomics page 224.
„Don't ask the question, unless you are truly prepared for every possible anwser for it.“
To many people tend to ask questions that the possible answers to that question might cause anger, hurt, disappointment or displays a weakness that they never were aware of until they got the one answer they weren't prepared for. If you haven't considered that then you might want to refrain from asking it.
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
— Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951
Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)
